Publication Date:
1985-02-15
Description:
The gustatory sense in catfish consists of two dissociable components, a facial nerve system used for food selection and a vagal nerve system involved in swallowing. Neural tracing experiments demonstrate that the primary sensory nucleus for the facial gustatory system is connected to the reticular formation and trigeminal nuclei. In contrast, the primary sensory nucleus for the vagal gustatory system is connected to the motoneurons that mediate swallowing. These results provide anatomical evidence for parallel gustatory systems within the vertebrate central nervous system.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Finger, T E -- Morita, Y -- KO-4 NS-00772/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R0-1 NS-15258/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1985 Feb 15;227(4688):776-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3969566" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Afferent Pathways/*anatomy & histology
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Animals
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Deglutition
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Fishes/*anatomy & histology
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Taste/*physiology
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Trigeminal Nerve/anatomy & histology
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Vagus Nerve/anatomy & histology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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