Taste Damage: Previously Unsuspected Consequences

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Taste Damage: Previously Unsuspected Consequences
2005
Linda M. Bartoshuk, Derek J. Snyder, Miriam Grushka, Ann M. Berger, Valerie B. Duffy and John F. Kveton
Chemical Senses Vol. 30 No. suppl 1 ¨© Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved
Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8041, USA
Correspondence to be sent to: Linda M. Bartoshuk, e-mail: linda.bartoshuk@yale.edu
Key words: burning mouth syndrome, dysgeusia, inhibition, phantoms, PROP
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