Monosodium glutamate and sweet taste: Generalization of conditioned taste aversion between glutamate and sweet stimuli in rats

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 631-641

  Heyer, B R ^a   Taylor Burds, C C ^a   Tran, L H ^a   Delay, Eugene R ^a  

^a REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; Monosodium glutamate; Sweet stimuli; Sweet taste; Umami

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; MALTOSE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; FLAVORING AGENT; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; SC 45647;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SWEETNESS; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASTE;

AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FLAVORING AGENTS; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANIDINES; MALE; MALTOSE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SACCHARIN; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

EID: 3242711610     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjg056     Document Type: Article

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