TABLE 1.

General characteristics of NTS taste-responsive units

					Response (Mean Firing Rate in spikes/s over 2 s)
					n
Cell	No. of Trials	Spontaneous Rate	Best	Breadth of Tuning	High	Low	H	Q	S
FR10	17	3.1	HCl	0.76	25.3 ± 0.7	25.4 ± 1.0	24.1	12.9	−0.3
FR11	23	2.7	NaCl	0.67	21 ± 3.6	22.1 ± 4.2	5.9	6.9	−0.7
FR12	14	0.9	NaCl	0.55	25.5 ± 2.3	18.7 ± 3.4**	2.4	3.2	1.6
FR13	12	0.54	NaCl	0.71	10.2 ± 0.7	−0.1 ± 0.2**	3.4	−0.1	2.2
FR14	12	1	NaCl	0.97	8.3 ± 0.7	1.0 ± 0.4**	5.5	6.3	6.2
FR21	40	0.5	NaCl	0.92	38.6 ± 1.1	39.1 ± 0.9	10.4	6.4	13.3
FR22	23	1.2	NaCl	0.68	13.6 ± 1.6	10.7 ± 1.6**	1.5	2.8	1.9
FR23	12	6.2	NaCl	0.54	3.1 ± 0.5	1.2 ± 0.6**	0.2	1.2	−0.4
FR24	11	0.2	HCl	0.67	15.8 ± 1.7	17.3 ± 1.7	10.8	2.8	−0.1
FR30	11	3	HCl	0.79 ± 0.02	16.1 ± 1.4	15.3 ± 1.2	59.7 ± 1.7	51.4 ± 1.4	3.3 ± 0.8
FR31	10	1	NaCl	0.76 ± 0.04	47.7 ± 2.4	45.3 ± 1.7	15.8 ± 1.1	17.2 ± 0.8	0.2 ± 0.4
FR42	14	0.6	NaCl	0.70 ± 0.08	5.7 ± 0.8	1.8 ± 0.6**	4.4 ± 0.7	4.7 ± 1.4	0.1 ± 0.1
FR44	12	1.7	NaCl	0.90 ± 0.07	13.0 ± 1.6	14.4 ± 1.3	9.0 ± 0.8	7.1 ± 0.5	1.2 ± 0.4
FR45	15	0.54	NaCl	0.77 ± 0.08	8.1 ± 0.6	7.0 ± 0.8	2.5 ± 0.3	1.0 ± 0.3	4.5 ± 0.7
FR48	18	0.44	HCl	0.88 ± 0.01	74.0 ± 2.0	60.4 ± 2.1**	75.1 ± 2.9	60.7 ± 1.7	9.7 ± 0.9
FR49	10	7.1	NaCl	0.91 ± 0.02	64.8 ± 7.2	53.9 ± 8.0	52.3 ± 15.5	62.7 ± 11.0	17.6 ± 2.3
FR50	12	1.97	NaCl	0.82 ± 0.03	56.5 ± 1.8	44.6 ± 2.1**	53.0 ± 1.4	47.3 ± 1.3	3.5 ± 0.8
FR51	11	12.4	HCl	0.91 ± 0.01	5.9 ± 1.3	2.7 ± 1.2	9.9 ± 1.3	9.2 ± 1.0	6.0 ± 0.8
FR54	10	1.44	NaCl	0.66 ± 0.04	1.5 ± 0.5	1.9 ± 0.4	1.0 ± 0.2	0.9 ± 0.3	04 ± 0.2
FR55	10	1.46	HCl	0.88 ± 0.01	12.5 ± 0.8	13.0 ± 1.3	14.3 ± 1.0	10.4 ± 1.0	2.1 ± 0.4
FR57	15	0.14	NaCl	0.86 ± 0.02	2.3 ± 0.5	2.2 ± 0.2	0.9 ± 0.2	1.2 ± 0.3	1.9 ± 0.3
FR58	16	4.13	NaCl	0.65 ± 0.04	18.5 ± 3.7	14.0 ± 3.4	8.8 ± 1.6	5.2 ± 0.8	1.4 ± 0.8

Values are means ± SE. NTS, nucleus of the solitary tract.

^**P < 0.01 for t-test comparison of NaCl response at high and low flow rates