Taste buds: cells, signals and synapses.
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 28655883.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/nrn.2017.68 and PMC identifier 5958546.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
The past decade has witnessed a consolidation and refinement of the extraordinary progress made in taste research. This Review describes recent advances in our understanding of taste receptors, taste buds, and the connections between taste buds and sensory afferent fibres. The article discusses new findings regarding the cellular mechanisms for detecting tastes, new data on the transmitters involved in taste processing and new studies that address longstanding arguments about taste coding.
Medical subject headings
- Afferent Pathways
- Synaptic Transmission
- Taste Buds