Licking and gaping elicited by microstimulation of the nucleus of the solitary tract

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Kinzeler, Nicole R ^a,b   Travers, Susan P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Section of Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitter Fos; Chemotopy; Oromotor reflexes; Taste reactivity

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LICKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OROMOTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASTE; TASTE BUD; TONGUE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TONGUE;

EID: 51149104611     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00189.2008     Document Type: Article

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