Mice perceive synergistic umami mixtures as tasting sweet

Chemical Senses

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 295-303

  Saites, Louis N ^a   Goldsmith, Zachary ^a   Densky, Jaron ^a   Guedes, Vivian A ^a   Boughter, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brief access test; Distributive model; Labeled line theory; Monosodium glutamate; Perceptual discrimination; Taste cell receptors

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE POTASSIUM; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; SUCROSE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRIEF ACCESS TEST; CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEETNESS; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; UMAMI; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE;

MUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSITOL PHOSPHATES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 84936862702     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjv010     Document Type: Article

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