Gurmarin suppression of licking responses to sweetener-quinine mixtures in C57BL mice

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-243

  Murata, Yuko ^d   Nakashima, Kiyohito ^a   Yamada, Ayako ^b   Shigemura, Noriatsu ^b   Sasamoto, Kazushige ^b   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^b,c  

^a ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BRAIN   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cyclodextrin; Gurmarin inhibition; Licking behavior; Mice; Sweet taste

Indexed keywords

BETA CYCLODEXTRIN; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; PEPTIDE; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; GURMARIN PROTEIN, GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LICKING; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER DEPRIVATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD;

CHORDA; CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLANT PROTEINS; QUININE; SUCROSE; TASTE BUDS; TASTE THRESHOLD; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0642279422     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.3.237     Document Type: Article

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