Response properties of the pharyngeal branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve for umami taste in mice and rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 417, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-45

  Kitagawa, Junichi ^a   Takahashi, Yoshihiro ^b   Matsumoto, Shigeji ^a   Shingai, Tomio ^b  

^a NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glossopharyngeal nerve; Glutamate; Mice; Pharynx; Rat; Umami

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE SODIUM; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; MONOPOTASSIUM GLUTAMATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MIXTURE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE ACUITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHEMORECEPTORS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHARYNX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 34047169218     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.02.032     Document Type: Article

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