Dietary sodium deprivation reduces gustatory neural responses of the parabrachial nucleus in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 432, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 170-173

  Huang, Tao ^a   Yan, Jianqun ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dietary sodium deprivation; Parabrachial nucleus; Taste

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DIET, SODIUM-RESTRICTED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TASTE;

EID: 39149128243     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.10.034     Document Type: Article

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