Responses of the rat chorda tympani nerve to glutamate-sucrose mixtures

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 473-482

  Formaker, B K ^a   Stapleton, J R ^b   Roper, S D ^c   Frank, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixture models; MSG; Single fibers; Umami; Whole nerve

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; SUCROSE; FOOD ADDITIVE; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; SWEETENING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASTE BUD;

CHORDA; RODENTIA;

AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOOD ADDITIVES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 19544369019     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh049     Document Type: Article

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