Water as an independent taste modality

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2010, Pages

  Rosen, Andrew M ^a   Roussin, Andre T ^a   Di Lorenzo, Patricia M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gustatory; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Parabrachial nucleus of the pons; Taste; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655210962     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00175     Document Type: Article

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