Stimulus processing of glycine is dissociable from that of sucrose and glucose based on behaviorally measured taste signal detection in sac 'taster' and 'non-taster' mice

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 639-649

  Eylam, Shachar ^a   Spector, Alan C ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

129P3 J; C57BL 6J; DBA 2J; Sweet taste; SWR J; T1R receptors

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCINE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DBA MOUSE; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASTE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; GLUCOSE; GLYCINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 16644385872     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh068     Document Type: Article

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