Major differences in the proportion of amino acid fiber types transmitting taste information from oral and extraoral regions in the channel catfish

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2062-2073

  Ogawa, Kazuaki ^a,b   Caprio, John ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ogawa ENT Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; PROLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; INNERVATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TELEOST;

ALANINE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; APPETITE; ARGININE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATFISHES; FACIAL NERVE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE FIBERS; PROLINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 77951214039     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00894.2009     Document Type: Article

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