Behavioral comparisons of the tastes of L-alanine and monosodium glutamate in rats

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 807-814

  Taylor Burds, Carol C ^a   Westburg, Änna M ^a   Wifall, Timothy C ^a   Delay, Eugene R ^a  

^a REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; Discrimination; L alanine; MSG; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMILORIDE; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; DIURETIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM RESTRICTION; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

ALANINE; AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DIURETICS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; TASTE;

EID: 16644364060     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh246     Document Type: Article

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