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  • Title: Effects of medullary afferent vagal axotomy and area postrema lesions on short-term and long-term NaCl-induced taste aversion learning.
    Author: Arnedo M, Gallo M, Agüero A, Puerto A.
    Journal: Physiol Behav; 1990 Jun; 47(6):1067-74. PubMed ID: 2395911.
    Abstract:
    This series of experiments demonstrates a functional dissociation between the area postrema (AP) and the vagus nerve in short-term taste aversion learning (TAL). Although medullary axotomy of the afferent component of the vagus disrupted the learning observed with NaCl-induced short-term (nondelayed) TAL, lesioning the AP failed to interfere with the discriminative process employed by the animals under the same conditions. However, involvement of neither the vagus nerve nor the AP seemed to be indispensable for learning in NaCl-induced long-term (delayed) TAL. The possibility that the vagus nerve and the AP are involved in temporally distinct visceral processing is discussed.
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