Sugar best single chorda tympani nerve fiber responses to various sugar stimuli in rat and hamster.

Abstract

1. Sugar best single chorda tympani nerve fiber of rat and hamster were tested with six sugars. 2. Fibers were selected for this experiment, only if they responded to 1.0 M sucrose or 1.0 M maltose and they responded poorly to 0.1 M NaCl. 3. In rat, some single fibers gave larger responses to maltose than to sucrose, while in hamster nearly all nerve fibers responded best to sucrose. 4. The order of effectiveness of sugars was maltose greater than fructose greater than or equal to lactose greater than sucrose greater than glucose greater than galactose in rat and sucrose greater than fructose greater than or equal to glucose greater than or equal to galactose greater than maltose greater than lactose in hamster.