Neurophysiology neurone types

By flavor chemistry is meant the chemistry of the total complement of sensory responses elicited by a food or a food component. In human sensory research, the sensory responses are psychophysical sensations, whereas in neurophysiological studies the responses are measured from neurons. The flavor chemistry of the geniculate ganglion fungiform papillae taste systems would then consist of a description of the neural responses to foods and to the types of compounds present in food. The neural responses of both the dog and the cat have been examined with respect to the excitability of many of the compounds found in vertebrate tissues. The cat has been tested with more compounds than the dog, but the results will also apply in large part to the dog, since the two species are so similar with respect to the majority of the compounds considered. 

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