Gustatory neural responses to umami taste stimuli in C57BL/6ByJ and 129P3/J mice

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 789-795

  Inoue, Masashi ^a,b   Beauchamp, Gary K ^b,c   Bachmanov, Alexander A ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorda tympani nerve; Electrophysiology; Genetics; Glossopharyngeal nerve; Glutamate

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; FOOD ADDITIVE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; UMAMI TASTE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHORDA;

5'-GUANYLIC ACID; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOOD ADDITIVES; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; TASTE;

EID: 16644390987     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh083     Document Type: Article

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