Robert J. Contreras

Best Publications

• The central projections of the trigeminal, facial, glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves: an autoradiographic study in the rat.

  Robert J. Contreras;Robert M. Beckstead;Ralph Norgren

  584
  Citations

• Central origins of cranial nerve parasympathetic neurons in the rat

  Robert J. Contreras;Maximo M. Gomez;Ralph Norgren

  366
  Citations

• Nerve fibers sensitive to ionic taste stimuli in chorda tympani of the rat.

  M. E. Frank;R. J. Contreras;T. P. Hettinger

  329
  Citations

• Sodium deprivation alters neural responses to gustatory stimuli.

  R J Contreras;M Frank

  277
  Citations

• Changes in gustatory nerve discharges with sodium deficiency: a single unit analysis.

  Robert J. Contreras

  174
  Citations

• Gustatory neuron types in rat geniculate ganglion.

  Robert F. Lundy;Robert J. Contreras

  143
  Citations

• Changes in salt intake after lesions of the area postrema and the nucleus of the solitary tract in rats

  Robert J. Contreras;Paul W. Stetson

  138
  Citations

• Area postrema lesions produce feeding deficits in the rat: effects of preoperative dieting and 2-deoxy-D-glucose.

  Robert J. Contreras;Ellen Fox;Margaret L. Drugovich

  114
  Citations

• Sex differences in behavioral taste responses to and ingestion of sucrose and NaCl solutions by rats

  Kathleen S Curtis;Linda M Davis;Amy L Johnson;Kelly L Therrien

  113
  Citations

• Prenatal and early postnatal sodium chloride intake modifies the solution preferences of adult rats.

  Robert J. Contreras;Therese Kosten

  109
  Citations

• Weight cycling in female rats increases dietary fat selection and adiposity

  Danielle R. Reed;Robert J. Contreras;Carol Maggio;M.R.C. Greenwood

  100
  Citations

• Aerobic and resistance training dependent skeletal muscle plasticity in the colon-26 murine model of cancer cachexia.

  Andy V. Khamoui;Bong-Sup Park;Do-Houn Kim;Ming-Chia Yeh

  99
  Citations

• High dietary NaCl early in development enhances mean arterial pressure of adult rats.

  Robert J Contreras;Donna L Wong;Ross Henderson;Kathleen S Curtis

  93
  Citations

• Estrogen increases the taste threshold for sucrose in rats.

  Kathleen S. Curtis;Jennifer M. Stratford;Robert J. Contreras

  91
  Citations

• Temperature Modulates Taste Responsiveness and Stimulates Gustatory Neurons in the Rat Geniculate Ganglion

  Joseph M. Breza;Kathleen S. Curtis;Robert J. Contreras

  88
  Citations

• Sodium intake linked to amiloride-sensitive gustatory transduction in C57BL/6J and 129/J mice.

  Kimberley S. Gannon;Robert J. Contreras

  86
  Citations

• Salt taste and disease.

  R J Contreras

  82
  Citations

• Estrogen influences stimulated water intake by ovariectomized female rats

  Eric G Krause;Kathleen S Curtis;Linda M Davis;Jennifer R Stowe

  80
  Citations

• Chorda tympani nerve transection alters linoleic acid taste discrimination by male and female rats

  Jennifer M. Stratford;Kathleen S. Curtis;Robert J. Contreras

  76
  Citations

• Gustatory adaptation as an explanation for dietary-induced sodium appetite

  Robert J. Contreras;Glenn I. Hatton

  64
  Citations