The sweetness‐inducing effect of miraculin; behavioural and neurophysiological experiments in the rhesus monkey Macaca mulatta

1. The gustatory effects of miraculin, the sweetness‐inducing protein from the miracle fruit Synsepalum dulcificum, was studied in the rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta.

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