Effects of melanin-concentrating hormone on licking microstructure and brief-access taste responses

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Baird, John Paul ^a   Rios, Catalina ^a   Gray, Nora Elizabeth ^a   Walsh, Caroline Elizabeth ^a   Fischer, Shannon Glenora ^a   Pecora, Ashley Layne ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding; Gustatory; Rat; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; QUININE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LICKING; MALE; MEAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY ANALYSIS; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MELANINS; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PITUITARY HORMONES; QUININE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUCROSE; TASTE; TONGUE;

EID: 33751191652     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00143.2006     Document Type: Article

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