Effect of chorda tympani nerve transection on salt taste perception in mice

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 811-819

  Golden, Glen J ^a   Ishiwatari, Yutaka ^a,b   Theodorides, Maria L ^a   Bachmanov, Alexander A ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; LiCl; Taste preferences; Taste threshold

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT TASTE; TASTE; TASTE PREFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; MALE; MICE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; TASTE PERCEPTION;

CHORDA; CRICETINAE; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 80054952514     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr056     Document Type: Article

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