Taste coding in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the awake, freely licking rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 10494-10506

  Roussin, Andre T ^c   D'Agostino, Alexandra E ^a   Fooden, Andrew M ^a   Victor, Jonathan D ^b   Di Lorenzo, Patricia M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMORECEPTOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; LICKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CITRIC ACID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; QUININE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84864425605     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1856-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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