Breadth of tuning in taste afferent neurons varies with stimulus strength

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wu, An ^a   Dvoryanchikov, Gennady ^a   Pereira, Elizabeth ^a   Chaudhari, Nirupa ^a   Roper, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGING METHOD; NEUROLOGY; ORAL HEALTH; RODENT; TASTE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SENSORY GANGLION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE; ANIMAL; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENICULATE GANGLION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE BUD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GENICULATE GANGLION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 84942011681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9171     Document Type: Article

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