Structure of gustatory pore

Animals use their gustatory systems to evaluate the nutritious value, toxicity, sodium content, and acidity of food. Although… Expand

Male children (8-9 years) are reported to have a higher sensitivity than male adults to the sweet tastant sucrose when small… Expand

Taste-mGluR4, cloned from taste tissues, is a truncated variant of brain-expressed mGluR4a (brain-mGluR4), and is known to be a… Expand

Sour taste is initiated by protons acting at receptor proteins or channels. In vertebrates, transduction of this taste quality… Expand

Taste represents a major form of sensory input in the animal kingdom. In mammals, taste perception begins with the recognition of… Expand

The microenvironment at chemical receptor sites is important for ligand-receptor interaction as it can influence the entry… Expand

The activity of taste cells maintained in the intact hamster tongue was monitored in response to acid stimulation by recording… Expand

SummaryApical membrane currents were recorded from the taste pore of single taste buds maintained in the tongue of the rat, using… Expand

Electrical coupling in taste buds and in non-taste lingual epithelium in the mudpuppy was examined by injecting cells with a… Expand

Abstract An electron microscope study of the morphological sequence of events occurring in the development of the fungiform… Expand