New Methods to Study Gustatory CodingAlejandra Boronat-García *1, Sam Reiter *1,2, Kui Sun 1, Mark Stopfer 1
1National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
We present three new methods to study gustatory coding. Using a simple animal, the moth Manduca sexta (Manduca), we describe a dissection protocol, the use of extracellular tetrodes to record the activity of multiple gustatory receptor neurons, and a system for delivering and monitoring precisely timed pulses of tastants.
