CHAPTER 31 - Gustatory System
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The bad taste of medicines: Overview of basic research on bitter taste
2013, Clinical TherapeuticsCitation Excerpt :The projections from PBN neurons bifurcate, with 1 set terminating in ventral forebrain structures associated with homeostatic functions and affective processes and the other in the parvicellular subdivision of the ventral posterior medial nucleus of the thalamus, from which neurons send their axons to terminate in the insular cortex’s gustatory zone. In primates, the projections of the taste neurons of the NTS bypass the PBN and terminate in the thalamus, whose cells project directly to taste cortex (see Figure 1, “Central Nervous System”).39 Thus, the ventral forebrain in primates receives its taste input from cortical structures.
The Neurobiology of Gustation: Taste Buds and Transduction Processes
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2012, Progress in Brain ResearchCitation Excerpt :The medial sector (VPMpc, med) receives gustatory projections from the most rostral part of the nucleus of the solitary tract and sends its efferents to the granular, anterosuperior part of the insula, and the adjacent portion of the frontal operculum. This area, which represents the primary gustatory cortex (GI), projects in its turn to a more basally situated, dysgranular insular area, which hence, may be designated as the secondary gustatory cortex (GII; Pritchard and Norgren, 2004; Fig. 1a). The lateral sector of the parvocellular part of VPM (VPMpc, lat) receives general visceral information from the caudal part of the nucleus of the solitary tract, which attains the nucleus via a synaptic relay in the external medial parabrachial nucleus.
Central Gustatory System and Ingestive Behavior
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