title: Topographical organization of taste and tactile neurons in the facial lobe of the sea catfish, Plotosus lineatus.
abstract: An extraordinary development of the paired medullary facial taste nuclei, the facial lobes, occurs in the sea catfish, Plotosus lineatus. Each of the facial lobes is divided by fiber fascicles into 5 highly distinct lobules or subnuclei, constituting 5 longitudinal columns through the lobe. Extracellular, electrophysiological recordings of neurons within the respective subnuclei of the facial lobe indicate superimposable taste and tactile neural maps organized in a somatotopic manner.
authors: Department of Oral Physiology, Kagoshima University Dental School, Japan.
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Marui
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Caprio
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Kiyohara
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Kasahara
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002397:Catfishes / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D013649:Taste; D014110:Touch