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  • Title: Single neuron gustatory responses of the gerbil chorda tympani to a variety of stimuli (recorded by a new method).
    Author: Somenarain L, DiBennardo RA, Jakinovich W.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1992 Oct 23; 594(1):1-9. PubMed ID: 1467928.
    Abstract:
    In most mammalian studies on gustatory single neuron recordings, the animal's chorda tympani nerve was cut and manipulated. This results in nerve trauma which may have affected the precision of the responses. In this paper, we are presenting a method whereby gustatory recordings were obtained from gerbil single chorda tympani neurons by inserting a microelectrode directly into the uncut nerve. The stimuli included 0.3 M NaCl, 0.3 M KCl, 0.3 M CaCl2, 0.3 M NH4Cl, 0.05 M acetic acid, 0.01 M quinine HCl, 32% Polycose and the sweeteners 0.5 M D-glucose, 0.5 M D-fructose, 0.02 M sodium saccharin and 0.5 M sucrose. While thirty-seven of the sixty seven neurons tested did not respond to any of the eleven gustatory stimuli applied to the gerbil's tongue, thirty positive single neuron responses were obtained to this group of compounds. The thirty positive neuron responses were grouped in two ways: (1) by observationally sorting the data according to maximum responses to four stimuli, sucrose, NH4Cl, NaCl, and acetic acid; and (2) by objectively sorting the data matrix using cluster analysis. The groups resulting from each method were then characterized and compared by discriminant function analysis. By the first grouping method, ten neurons responded best to sodium chloride, seven to acetic acid, four to ammonium chloride, and nine to sucrose. However, canonical discriminant function analysis showed that two of the four groups, acetic acid and ammonium chloride, occupied the same region of discriminant space and should be combined.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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