Ebook: Methods in chemosensory research

Content: 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