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J Neurophysiol 71: 1373-1380, 1994;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 71, Issue 4 1373-1380, Copyright © 1994 by APS

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Responses of single hamster parabrachial neurons to binary taste mixtures of NaCl with sucrose or QHCl

M. B. Vogt and D. V. Smith
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio 45267.

1. Although human psychophysical responses to taste mixtures have been investigated extensively, there have been few reports on the neurophysiological coding of taste mixtures in the mammalian gustatory system. In recent studies we have investigated the responses of single third-order neurons in the hamster parabrachial nucleus (PbN) to anterior tongue stimulation with binary mixtures of heterogenous taste stimuli including sucrose+QHCl, sucrose+citric acid, and NaCl+citric acid. Some of these stimulus combinations evoked mixture suppression, or response frequencies that were less than that evoked by the more effective component (MEC) presented alone, which is analogous to the mixture suppression reported in human psychophysical studies of similar taste mixtures. In the current report we extend our investigation to include NaCl+QHCl and NaCl+sucrose mixtures. 2. The action potentials of single PbN neurons were recorded extracellularly. Four concentrations of each stimulus were employed: NaCl and sucrose at 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, and 1.0 M; QHCl at 0.00032, 0.0032, 0.032, and 0.1 M. All stimuli were tested alone and in mixture; the NaCl+sucrose and NaCl+QHCl mixtures were formed by pairing the four concentrations of each stimulus with the strongest concentration of the other stimulus. 3. For both NaCl+sucrose and NaCl+QHCl mixtures, the response frequencies evoked by the mixtures did not differ from those evoked by the MEC presented alone, whether averaged across all neurons or across subgroups of NaCl- or sucrose-best cells. Furthermore, the across-neuron patterns (ANPs) of mixture responses were similar to those of the MECs.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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