Taste coding in the parabrachial nucleus of the pons in awake, freely licking rats and comparison with the nucleus of the solitary tract

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1655-1670

  Weiss, Michael S ^a   Victor, Jonathan D ^b   Di Lorenzo, Patricia M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Awake recording; Brain stem; Gustatory; Parabrachial nucleus of the pons; Taste

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; LICKING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPIKE; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE PREFERENCE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84900818691     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00643.2013     Document Type: Article

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