Olfactory signals from the main olfactory bulb converge with taste information from the chorda tympani nerve in the agranular insular cortex of rats

Gustation and olfaction are integrated into flavor, which contribute to detection and identification of foods. We focused on the insular cortex (IC), as a possible center of flavor integration, because the IC has been reported to receive olfactory in addition to gustatory inputs. In the present repo...

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