TASTE NERVE FIBERS - A RANDOM DISTRIBUTION OF SENSITIVITIES TO 4 TASTES

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FRANK, M
PFAFFMANN, C
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[1] Rockefeller University, New York
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10.1126/science.164.3884.1183
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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The numbers of rat glossopharyngeal and chorda tympani fibers responding to one, two, three, or four taste stimuli of different quality (sodium chloride, hydrochloric acid, quinine, and sucrose) and to each of the six possible pairs of these stimuli can be predicted if there are four independent sensitivities randomly distributed among innervating fibers.
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