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Effects of denervation and decentralization upon taste buds

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Denervation of vallate papillae results in failure of tactile and gustatory reception at a time when impulse conduction in the distal stump of the glossopharyngeal nerve is still unimpaired; delay of receptor deficit depends on axon length between receptor and axotomy sites; taste buds disappear by 10 days. Decentralization, through intracranial rhizotomy, does not modify lingual receptors structre or function.

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  1. Departamento de Neurobiologia, Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile

    J. A. Donoso & P. Zapata

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  1. J. A. Donoso
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Fellow of the Chilean Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT).

Work supported by, grant 1/71 of the Catholic University Research Fund. Thanks due to Dr.F. E. Samon Jr. for reviewing the maunuscript and to MsLuz-Gloria Oportus for technical assistance.

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Donoso, J.A., Zapata, P. Effects of denervation and decentralization upon taste buds. Experientia 32, 591–592 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01990180

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