Methods in chemosensory research / edited by Sidney A. Simon, Miguel A.L. Nicolelis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simon, Sidney A.

Nicolelis, Miguel A. L.

Series:

Methods & new frontiers in neuroscience series

Methods & new frontiers in neuroscience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical senses--Research--Methodology.

Chemical senses.

Chemoreceptors.

Medical Subjects:

Chemoreceptors.

Physical Description:

527 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Fla. ; London : CRC Press, [2002]

Contents:

Section 1 Behavioral Studies

Chapter 1 Psychophysical Measurement of Oral Chemesthesis / Barry G. Green 3

Chapter 2 Behavioral Methods in Olfactory Research with Rodents / Burton Slotnick, Heather Schellinck 21

Section 2 Molecular and Cell Biology of Taste and Olfaction

Chapter 3 Recordings from Vertebrate Olfactory Receptor Neurons: From Isolated Cells to Intact Epithelial Preparations / Minghong Ma, Gordon M. Shepherd 65

Chapter 4 Recordings from Olfactory Receptor Neurons in the Rat in Vivo / M.A. Chaput, P. Duchamp-Viret, A. Duchamp 79

Chapter 5 Voltage-Sensitive and Calcium-Sensitive Dye Imaging of Activity in the Olfactory Bulb: Presynaptic Inhibition, Maps of Receptor Cell Input and Oscillations / Matt Wachowiak, Ying-Wan Lam, Lawrence. B. Cohen, Michal R. Zochowski 91

Chapter 6 Gustatory System Development: New Experimental Approaches in Amphibian and Mammalian Embryos / Linda A. Barlow, Thomas E. Finger 117

Chapter 7 Mammalian Taste Receptors / Mark A. Hoon, Nicholas J. P. Ryba 143

Chapter 8 Researching Isolated Taste Receptor Cells: Deciphering Transduction Cascades with Patch-Clamp and Calcium: Imaging Techniques / M. Scott Herness 169

Chapter 9 Rapid Kinetic Measurements in Chemosensory Systems / Gulshan Sunavala, Wentao Yan, Joseph G. Brand, Andrew I. Spielman 207

Chapter 10 Electrophysiological Recordings of Mammalian Taste / Vicktoria Danilova, Yuri Danilov, Thomas Roberts, Donald Elmer, Goren Hellekant 239

Section 3 Higher-Order Studies in Taste and Olfaction

Chapter 11 Activation of Neurons in Trigeminal Subnucleus Caudalis (Vc) by Irritant Chemical Stimulation: Extracellular Single-Unit Recording and c-fos Immunohistochemical Methods / Earl E. Carstens, Christopher T. Simons, Jean-Marc Dressier, Makoto Sudo, Satoko Sudo, Mirela Iodi Carstens, Steven L. Jinks 267

Chapter 12 Methodological Considerations for Electrophysiological Recording and Analysis of Taste-Responsive Neurons in the Brain Stem of the Rat / Patricia M. Di Lorenzo, Christian H. Lemon 293

Chapter 13 Electrophysiological Analysis of Olfactory Coding in the CNS / Thomas A. Christensen, John G. Hildebrand 325

Chapter 14 Electrophysiological Studies of Gustation in Awake Rats / Donald B. Katz, Sidney A. Simon, Miguel A.L. Nicolelis 339

Chapter 15 Recording from Single Neurons in the Primary Taste Cortex of the Alert Macaque / Thomas R. Scott, Carlos R. Plata-Salaman 359

Chapter 16 Olfactory Learning and the Neurophysiological Study of Rat Prefrontal Function / Geoffrey Schoenbaum 371

Chapter 17 Olfactory Event-Related Potentials / Thomas Hummel, Gerd Kobal 429

Chapter 18 Application of Functional MRI in Olfactory Studies / F. Xu, Charles Greer, Gordon M. Shepherd 465

Chapter 19 Functional Imaging of Olfactory Activation in the Human Brain / Birgit Kettenmann, Thomas Hummel, Gerd Kobal 477.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0849323290

OCLC:

46959878