The gustatory system contributes to the flavor of foods and beverages and communicates
information about nutrients and poisons. This system has evolved to detect and ultimately …

Taste is important in searching and identifying nutritional food substances in most species of
animals ranging from bacteria to primates. Taste also elicits affective reactions or behaviors …

The efferent projections of the parvicellular division of the ventroposteromedial nucleus of
the thalamus (VMPpc; thalamic taste area) were traced to cortex in Macaca fascicularis by …

Anterograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and HRP conjugated to wheat germ
agglutinin (WGA-HRP) demonstrated a substantial, bilateral projection from insular cortex to …

The responses of 111 cortical neurons to the four classical taste stimuli (sucrose, NaCl, HCl,
and quinine HCl) applied to the anterior part of the tongue were recorded extracellularly in …

Theories of taste coding in the brain stem have been based on the idea that taste responses
are integrated over time without regard to the temporal structure of the taste-evoked spike …

The distribution of evoked expression of the protooncogene c-fos was
immunohistochemically examined in the parabrachial nucleus (PBN) of water-deprived rats …

Research findings related to the functional significance of the gustatory neocortical system of
the rat are reviewed and interpreted. Studies of gustatory neocortex (GN) involvement in …

The aims of this chapter are to describe the anatomy and physiology of the central taste
system, with reference to the rodent and to the primate to make the findings relevant to taste …

Extracellular action potentials were recorded from 73 neurons in the parvicellular division of
the ventroposteromedial (VPMpc) nucleus of the thalamus of anesthetized Wistar rats during …