Gustatory functions, sodium appetite, and conditioned taste aversion survive excitotoxic lesions of the thalamic taste area

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 633-645

  Scalera, Giuseppe ^a   Grigson, Patricia Sue ^c   Norgren, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; IBOTENIC ACID; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; SODIUM DEPLETION; SODIUM INTAKE; TASTE AVERSION; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DIETARY SUCROSE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING; IBOTENIC ACID; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM, DIETARY; TASTE; THALAMIC NUCLEI; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0343035630     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.633     Document Type: Article

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