Behavioral discrimination between sucrose and other natural sweeteners in mice: Implications for the neural coding of T1R ligands

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 42, 2007, Pages 11242-11253

  Dotson, Cedrick D ^a,b   Spector, Alan C ^a,c  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Coding; Mice; Perception; Sweeteners; Taste

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; MALTOSE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN T 1 R 1; PROTEIN T 1 R 2; PROTEIN T 1 R 3; SERINE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIGANDS; MICE; NERVE NET; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

EID: 35448981391     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1227-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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