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Chemical stimuli, applied over the tongue of mammals, elicit impulses in two mixed nerves, the chorda tympani, a branch of the facial nerve, and the glossopharyngeal. The former innervates mostly fungiform papillae in the anterior two-thirds of the tongue, while the latter innervates circumvallate and foliate papillae in the posterior one-third of the tongue. Responses of the glossopharyngeal nerve to gustatory stimuli are different from those of the chorda tympani in that the former is more sensitive to quinine and less sensitive to NaCl (Yamada, 1966, 1967; Pfaffmann et al., 1967). Gustatory nerve responses are also different from one animal species to another (Beidler et al., 1955; Pfaffmann, 1955).
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Sato, M. (1974). Taste Receptors. In: Hubbard, J.I. (eds) The Peripheral Nervous System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8699-9_19
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