Monosodium glutamate but not linoleic acid differentially activates gustatory neurons in the rat geniculate ganglion

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 833-846

  Breza, Joseph M ^a   Curtis, Kathleen S ^a   Contreras, Robert J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ION; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY RECEPTOR; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; GENICULATE GANGLION; LINOLEIC ACID; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; TASTE;

RATTUS;

EID: 37148998998     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm052     Document Type: Article

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