Taste: Mammalian taste bud physiology

Stephen D. Roper

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.02908-4

Taste: Mammalian taste bud physiology

Stephen D. Roper

Physiology & Biophysics

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Abstract

The gustatory system informs humans and nonhuman animals about the nutritive and hedonic values of foods and beverages. Taste also prevents us from consuming potentially harmful substances. Taste buds are our peripheral sensory organs for gustation. Taste buds consist of collections of receptor cells that respond to compounds that elicit sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami tastes and transmit this information to higher centers in the brain. Recent research has uncovered many of the molecular mechanisms underlying the initial events of taste transduction and show that some degree of information processing takes place in taste buds.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Curated Reference Collection in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology
Publisher	Elsevier Science Ltd.
Pages	887-893
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128093245
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.02908-4
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

Keywords

Bitter
Salty
Sour
Sweet
T1Rs
T2Rs
Taste receptors
Transmitters
Umami

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Medicine(all)

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