Symposium Overview What Happens to the Pontine Processing?Repercussions of Interspecies Differences in PontineTaste Representation for Tasting and Feeding

摘要

In rodents taste information is conveyed bynial nerves 7, 9, and 10 to the nucleus ofsolitary tract (NTS)1-3 (Fig. 1). The major-of NTS taste neurons responding to stim-t ion of the taste receptors of the anteriorgue project to the ipsilateral medial aspectthe pontine parabrachial nucleus (PbN).