Changes in taste threshold over the life span of the Sprague-Dawley rat

Chemical Senses

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 189-193

  Kurt Thaw, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; QUININE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TASTE THRESHOLD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 9244226533     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/21.2.189     Document Type: Article

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