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Clare M Mathes; Jillian R Gregson; Alan C Spector
The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor paroxetine decreases breakpoint of rats engaging in a progressive ratio licking task for sucrose and quinine solutions.
Kimberly R Smith; Robert J Contreras; A Brennan Paedae; Yada Treesukosol; Alan C Spector
Contribution of the TRPV1 channel to salt taste quality in mice as assessed by conditioned taste aversion generalization and chorda tympani nerve responses.
Clare M Mathes; Alan C Spector
Food selection and taste changes in humans after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery: a direct-measures approach.

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2013: Clare M Mathes; Jillian R Gregson; Alan C Spector
The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor paroxetine decreases breakpoint of rats engaging in a progressive ratio licking task for sucrose and quinine solutions.
Chemical senses 2013;38(3):211-20.
2012: Kimberly R Smith; Robert J Contreras; A Brennan Paedae; Yada Treesukosol; Alan C Spector
Contribution of the TRPV1 channel to salt taste quality in mice as assessed by conditioned taste aversion generalization and chorda tympani nerve responses.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2012;303(11):R1195-205.
2012: Clare M Mathes; Alan C Spector
Food selection and taste changes in humans after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery: a direct-measures approach.
Physiology & behavior 2012;107(4):476-83.
2012: Cedrick D Dotson; Mircea Garcea; James C Smith; Connie L Colbert; Alan C Spector
The consequences of gustatory deafferentation on body mass and feeding patterns in the rat.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2012;303(6):R611-23.
2012: Gregory C Loney; Ginger D Blonde; Lisa A Eckel; Alan C Spector
Determinants of taste preference and acceptability: quality versus hedonics.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012;32(29):10086-92.
2012: Yada Treesukosol; Alan C Spector
Orosensory detection of sucrose, maltose, and glucose is severely impaired in mice lacking T1R2 or T1R3, but Polycose sensitivity remains relatively normal.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2012;303(2):R218-35.
2012: C M Mathes; K R Smith; Marco Bueter; C W le Roux; T A Lutz; Alan C Spector
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in rats increases sucrose taste-related motivated behavior independent of pharmacological GLP-1-receptor modulation.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2012;302(6):R751-67.
2011: Yada Treesukosol; Kimberly R Smith; Alan C Spector
The functional role of the T1R family of receptors in sweet taste and feeding.
Physiology & behavior 2011;105(1):14-26.
2011: Yada Treesukosol; Kimberly R Smith; Alan C Spector
Behavioral evidence for a glucose polymer taste receptor that is independent of the T1R2+3 heterodimer in a mouse model.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011;31(38):13527-34.
2011: Clare M Mathes; Alan C Spector
The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor paroxetine does not alter consummatory concentration-dependent licking of prototypical taste stimuli by rats.
Chemical senses 2011;36(6):515-26.
2011: Yada Treesukosol; Clare M Mathes; Alan C Spector
Citric acid and quinine share perceived chemosensory features making oral discrimination difficult in C57BL/6J mice.
Chemical senses 2011;36(5):477-89.
2010: Yada Treesukosol; Ginger D Blonde; Enshe Jiang; Dani Gonzalez; James C Smith; Alan C Spector
Necessity of the glossopharyngeal nerve in the maintenance of normal intake and ingestive bout size of corn oil by rats.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2010;299(4):R1050-8.
2010: Ginger Blonde; Enshe Jiang; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Learning-based recovery from perceptual impairment in salt discrimination after permanently altered peripheral gustatory input.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2010;299(4):R1027-36.
2010: Alan C Spector; Ginger Blonde; Mircea Garcea; Enshe Jiang
Rewiring the gustatory system: specificity between nerve and taste bud field is critical for normal salt discrimination.
Brain research 2010;1310():46-57.
2009: Yada Treesukosol; Ginger D Blonde; Alan C Spector
T1R2 and T1R3 subunits are individually unnecessary for normal affective licking responses to Polycose: implications for saccharide taste receptors in mice.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2009;296(4):R855-65.
2008: Connie L Grobe; Alan C Spector
Constructing quality profiles for taste compounds in rats: a novel paradigm.
Physiology & behavior 2008;95(3):413-24.
2007: Cedrick D Dotson; Alan C Spector
Behavioral discrimination between sucrose and other natural sweeteners in mice: implications for the neural coding of T1R ligands.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007;27(42):11242-53.
2007: Laura C Geran; Alan C Spector
Amiloride-insensitive units of the chorda tympani nerve are necessary for normal ammonium chloride detectability in the rat.
Behavioral neuroscience 2007;121(4):779-85.
2007: Yada Treesukosol; Vijay Lyall; Gerard L Heck; John A DeSimone; Alan C Spector
A psychophysical and electrophysiological analysis of salt taste in Trpv1 null mice.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2007;292(5):R1799-809.
2006: Ginger D Blonde; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
The relative effects of transection of the gustatory branches of the seventh and ninth cranial nerves on NaCl taste detection in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 2006;120(3):580-9.
2005: Shachar Eylam; Marcus Moore; Carrie Haskell-Luevano; Alan C Spector
Melanocortin-4 receptor-null mice display normal affective licking responses to prototypical taste stimuli in a brief-access test.
Peptides 2005;26(10):1712-9.
2005: Alan C Spector; Susan P Travers
The representation of taste quality in the mammalian nervous system.
Behavioral and cognitive neuroscience reviews 2005;4(3):143-91.
2005: Cedrick D Dotson; Stephen Roper; Alan C Spector
PLCbeta2-independent behavioral avoidance of prototypical bitter-tasting ligands.
Chemical senses 2005;30(7):593-600.
2005: Cedrick D Dotson; Alan C Spector
Drinking spout orifice size affects licking behavior in inbred mice.
Physiology & behavior 2005;85(5):655-61.
2005: Shachar Eylam; Alan C Spector
Taste discrimination between NaCl and KCl is disrupted by amiloride in inbred mice with amiloride-insensitive chorda tympani nerves.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2005;288(5):R1361-8.
2005: Alan C Spector
The functional consequences of gustatory nerve regeneration as assessed behaviorally in a rat model.
Chemical senses 2005;30 Suppl 1():i66-7.
2004: Connie L Colbert; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Effects of selective lingual gustatory deafferentation on suprathreshold taste intensity discrimination of NaCl in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 2004;118(6):1409-17.
2004: Laura C Geran; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Nerve regeneration-induced recovery of quinine avoidance after complete gustatory deafferentation of the tongue.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2004;287(5):R1235-43.
2004: Shachar Eylam; Alan C Spector
Stimulus processing of glycine is dissociable from that of sucrose and glucose based on behaviorally measured taste signal detection in Sac 'taster' and 'non-taster' mice.
Chemical senses 2004;29(7):639-49.
2004: Cedrick D Dotson; Alan C Spector
The relative affective potency of glycine, L-serine and sucrose as assessed by a brief-access taste test in inbred strains of mice.
Chemical senses 2004;29(6):489-98.
2004: Laura C Geran; Alan C Spector
Anion size does not compromise sodium recognition by rats after acute sodium depletion.
Behavioral neuroscience 2004;118(1):178-83.
2003: Camille Tessitore King; Leif D Deyrup; Sara Dodson; Katherine E Galvin; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Effects of gustatory nerve transection and regeneration on quinine-stimulated Fos-like immunoreactivity in the parabrachial nucleus of the rat.
The Journal of comparative neurology 2003;465(2):296-308.
2003: Shachar Eylam; Tara Tracy; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Amiloride is an ineffective conditioned stimulus in taste aversion learning in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice.
Chemical senses 2003;28(8):681-9.
2003: Shachar Eylam; Alan C Spector
Oral amiloride treatment decreases taste sensitivity to sodium salts in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice.
Chemical senses 2003;28(5):447-58.
2003: Steven J St John; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
The time course of taste bud regeneration after glossopharyngeal or greater superficial petrosal nerve transection in rats.
Chemical senses 2003;28(1):33-43.
2002: Laura C Geran; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Transecting the gustatory branches of the facial nerve impairs NH(4)Cl vs. KCl discrimination in rats.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2002;283(3):R739-47.
2002: Alan C Spector; Stacy L Kopka
Rats fail to discriminate quinine from denatonium: implications for the neural coding of bitter-tasting compounds.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2002;22(5):1937-41.
2002: Shachar Eylam; Alan C Spector
The effect of amiloride on operantly conditioned performance in an NaCl taste detection task and NaCl preference in C57BL/6J mice.
Behavioral neuroscience 2002;116(1):149-59.
2001: Stacy L Kopka; Alan C Spector
Functional recovery of taste sensitivity to sodium chloride depends on regeneration of the chorda tympani nerve after transection in the rat.
Behavioral neuroscience 2001;115(5):1073-85.
2000: Laura C Geran; Alan C Spector
Sodium taste detectability in rats is independent of anion size: the psychophysical characteristics of the transcellular sodium taste transduction pathway.
Behavioral neuroscience 2000;114(6):1229-38.
2000: Camille Tessitore King; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Glossopharyngeal nerve regeneration is essential for the complete recovery of quinine-stimulated oromotor rejection behaviors and central patterns of neuronal activity in the nucleus of the solitary tract in the rat.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2000;20(22):8426-34.
2000: Shachar Eylam; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Glossopharyngeal nerve transection does not alter taste reactivity to sucrose conditioned to be aversive.
Chemical senses 2000;25(4):423-8.
2000: Laura C Geran; Alan C Spector
Amiloride increases sodium chloride taste detection threshold in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 2000;114(3):623-34.
2000: Alan C Spector
Linking gustatory neurobiology to behavior in vertebrates.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2000;24(4):391-416.
2000: S Markison; B L Thompson; J C Smith; Alan C Spector
Time course and pattern of compensatory ingestive behavioral adjustments to lysine deficiency in rats.
The Journal of nutrition 2000;130(5):1320-8.
2000: Stacy L Kopka; Laura C Geran; Alan C Spector
Functional status of the regenerated chorda tympani nerve as assessed in a salt taste discrimination task.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2000;278(3):R720-31.
1999: S Markison; D W Gietzen; Alan C Spector
Essential amino acid deficiency enhances long-term intake but not short-term licking of the required nutrient.
The Journal of nutrition 1999;129(8):1604-12.
1999: Camille Tessitore King; S P Travers; Neil E Rowland; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Glossopharyngeal nerve transection eliminates quinine-stimulated fos-like immunoreactivity in the nucleus of the solitary tract: implications for a functional topography of gustatory nerve input in rats.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1999;19(8):3107-21.
1999: Laura C Geran; N A Guagliardo; Alan C Spector
Chorda tympani nerve transection, but not amiloride, increases the KCl taste detection threshold in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1999;113(1):185-95.
1999: S Markison; SJ St John; Alan C Spector
Glossopharyngeal nerve transection reduces quinine avoidance in rats not given presurgical stimulus exposure.
Physiology & behavior 1999;65(4-5):773-8.
1998: Alan C Spector; P A Klumpp; J M Kaplan
Analytical issues in the evaluation of food deprivation and sucrose concentration effects on the microstructure of licking behavior in the rat.
Behavioral neuroscience 1998;112(3):678-94.
1998: Alan C Spector; SJ St John
Role of taste in the microstructure of quinine ingestion by rats.
The American journal of physiology 1998;274(6 Pt 2):R1687-703.
1998: SJ St John; Alan C Spector
Behavioral discrimination between quinine and KCl is dependent on input from the seventh cranial nerve: implications for the functional roles of the gustatory nerves in rats.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1998;18(11):4353-62.
1998: J P Chappell; SJ St John; Alan C Spector
Amiloride does not alter NaCl avoidance in Fischer-344 rats.
Chemical senses 1998;23(2):151-7.
1997: Alan C Spector; S Markison; SJ St John; Mircea Garcea
Sucrose vs. maltose taste discrimination by rats depends on the input of the seventh cranial nerve.
The American journal of physiology 1997;272(4 Pt 2):R1210-8.
1997: SJ St John; S Markison; N A Guagliardo; Timothy D Hackenberg; Alan C Spector
Chorda tympani transection and selective desalivation differentially disrupt two-lever salt discrimination performance in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1997;111(2):450-9.
1997: SJ St John; S Markison; Alan C Spector
Chorda tympani nerve transection disrupts taste aversion learning to potassium chloride, but not sodium chloride.
Behavioral neuroscience 1997;111(1):188-94.
1996: Alan C Spector; N A Guagliardo; SJ St John
Amiloride disrupts NaCl versus KCl discrimination performance: implications for salt taste coding in rats.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1996;16(24):8115-22.
1996: SJ St John; Alan C Spector
Combined glossopharyngeal and chorda tympani nerve transection elevates quinine detection thresholds in rats (Rattus norvegicus).
Behavioral neuroscience 1996;110(6):1456-68.
1996: Alan C Spector; R Redman; Mircea Garcea
The consequences of gustatory nerve transection on taste-guided licking of sucrose and maltose in the rat.
Behavioral neuroscience 1996;110(5):1096-109.
1995: S Markison; Alan C Spector
Amiloride is an ineffective conditioned stimulus in taste aversion learning.
Chemical senses 1995;20(5):559-63.
1995: G Scalera; Alan C Spector; Ralph Norgren
Excitotoxic lesions of the parabrachial nuclei prevent conditioned taste aversions and sodium appetite in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1995;109(5):997-1008.
1995: Alan C Spector; G Scalera; Harvey J Grill; Ralph Norgren
Gustatory detection thresholds after parabrachial nuclei lesions in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1995;109(5):939-54.
1995: P A Breslin; Alan C Spector; Harvey J Grill
Sodium specificity of salt appetite in Fischer-344 and Wistar rats is impaired by chorda tympani nerve transection.
The American journal of physiology 1995;269(2 Pt 2):R350-6.
1995: S Markison; SJ St John; Alan C Spector
Glossopharyngeal nerve transection does not compromise the specificity of taste-guided sodium appetite in rats.
The American journal of physiology 1995;269(1 Pt 2):R215-21.
1995: SJ St John; S Markison; Alan C Spector
Salt discriminability is related to number of regenerated taste buds after chorda tympani nerve section in rats.
The American journal of physiology 1995;269(1 Pt 2):R141-53.
1995: Alan C Spector
Gustatory function in the parabrachial nuclei: implications from lesion studies in rats.
Reviews in the neurosciences 1995;6(2):143-75.
1995: Alan C Spector
Gustatory parabrachial lesions disrupt taste-guided quinine responsiveness in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1995;109(1):79-90.
1994: Patricia Sue Grigson; Alan C Spector; Ralph Norgren
Lesions of the pontine parabrachial nuclei eliminate successive negative contrast effects in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1994;108(4):714-23.
1994: B H Li; Alan C Spector; Neil E Rowland
Reversal of dexfenfluramine-induced anorexia and c-Fos/c-Jun expression by lesion in the lateral parabrachial nucleus.
Brain research 1994;640(1-2):255-67.
1994: SJ St John; Mircea Garcea; Alan C Spector
Combined, but not single, gustatory nerve transection substantially alters taste-guided licking behavior to quinine in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1994;108(1):131-40.
1993: Patricia Sue Grigson; Alan C Spector; Ralph Norgren
Microstructural analysis of successive negative contrast in free-feeding and deprived rats.
Physiology & behavior 1993;54(5):909-16.
1993: Alan C Spector; Susan P Travers; Ralph Norgren
Taste receptors on the anterior tongue and nasoincisor ducts of rats contribute synergistically to behavioral responses to sucrose.
Behavioral neuroscience 1993;107(4):694-702.
1993: P A Breslin; Alan C Spector; Harvey J Grill
Chorda tympani section decreases the cation specificity of depletion-induced sodium appetite in rats.
The American journal of physiology 1993;264(2 Pt 2):R319-23.
1993: P A Breslin; Joel M Kaplan; Alan C Spector; C M Zambito; Harvey J Grill
Lick rate analysis of sodium taste-state combinations.
The American journal of physiology 1993;264(2 Pt 2):R312-8.
1993: Alan C Spector; Harvey J Grill; Ralph Norgren
Concentration-dependent licking of sucrose and sodium chloride in rats with parabrachial gustatory lesions.
Physiology & behavior 1993;53(2):277-83.
1992: Joel M Kaplan; Alan C Spector; Harvey J Grill
Dynamics of gastric emptying during and after stomach fill.
The American journal of physiology 1992;263(4 Pt 2):R813-9.
1992: P A Breslin; Alan C Spector; Harvey J Grill
A quantitative comparison of taste reactivity behaviors to sucrose before and after lithium chloride pairings: a unidimensional account of palatability.
Behavioral neuroscience 1992;106(5):820-36.
1992: Alan C Spector; Harvey J Grill
Salt taste discrimination after bilateral section of the chorda tympani or glossopharyngeal nerves.
The American journal of physiology 1992;263(1 Pt 2):R169-76.
1992: Alan C Spector; Ralph Norgren; Harvey J Grill
Parabrachial gustatory lesions impair taste aversion learning in rats.
Behavioral neuroscience 1992;106(1):147-61.
1990: Alan C Spector; J Andrews-Labenski; F C Letterio
A new gustometer for psychophysical taste testing in the rat.
Physiology & behavior 1990;47(4):795-803.
1990: Alan C Spector; Gary J Schwartz; Harvey J Grill
Chemospecific deficits in taste detection after selective gustatory deafferentation in rats.
The American journal of physiology 1990;258(3 Pt 2):R820-6.
1990: Joel M Kaplan; Alan C Spector; Harvey J Grill
Ingestion rate as an independent variable in the behavioral analysis of satiation.
The American journal of physiology 1990;258(3 Pt 2):R662-71.
1988: Alan C Spector; P Breslin; Harvey J Grill
Taste reactivity as a dependent measure of the rapid formation of conditioned taste aversion: a tool for the neural analysis of taste-visceral associations.
Behavioral neuroscience 1988;102(6):942-52.