title: Taste stimuli: time course of peripheral nerve response and theoretical models.
abstract: The responses of a taste nerve in rats to sodium chloride were integrated over successive 10-millisecond intervals and averaged. The time course of the mean responses consisted of a 30-millisecond latency, a rapid rise to a maximum, and a slower decline to a sustained level. The chemoreceptor theories of Beidler and Paton failed to predict the relation between phasic response and time or concentration.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002628:Chemoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D008959:Models, Neurological; D051381:Rats; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D013649:Taste; D013650:Taste Buds / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride