The neural processing of taste

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2007, Pages

  Lemon, Christian H ^a   Katz, Donald B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BITTER TASTE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TASTE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 38449100348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-S3-S5     Document Type: Review

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