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Abstract: Everyday taste descriptions for a range of stimuli were obtained from selected groups of American and Japanese subjects, using a variety of stimuli, stimulus presentation procedures and response conditions. In English there was a tendency to use a quadrapartite classification system: 'sweet', 'sour', 'salty' and 'bitter'. The Japanese had a different strategy, adding a fifth label: 'Ajinomoto', referring to the taste of monosodium glutamate. This label was generally replaced by umami--the scientific term--by Japanese who were workers or trained tasters involved with glutamate manufacture. Cult...

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Abstract: Observers are often asked to make intensity judgments for a sensory attribute of a stimulus that is embedded in a background of "irrelevant" stimulus dimensions. Under some circumstances, these background dimensions of the stimulus can influence intensity judgments for the target attribute. For example, judgments of sweetness can be influenced by the other taste or odor qualities of a solution (Frank & Byram, 1988; Kamen et al., 1961). Experiments 1 and 2 assessed the influence of stimulus context, instructional set, and reference stimuli on cross-quality interactions in mixtures of chemosenso...

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Abstract: Several explanations may account for deficits in the ability of animals to form taste aversions following neural manipulations. These encompass impairments in conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) processing, conditioned response (CR) measurement, and expression, memory, and taste-visceral integration. A behavioral procedure that aids in the distinction between some of these possibilities is presented. In Experiment 1, 10 rats received seven intraoral (IO) infusions of sucrose (30 s, 0.55 ml) spaced every 5 min starting immediately after the injection of 3.0 mEq/kg of lithi...

Abstract: Plasma membranes were isolated from taste receptor-containing epithelium of the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. The membranes were prepared by ultracentrifugation of a sedimentable fraction in sucrose, using either a discontinuous density gradient or a continuous linear density gradient. The plasma membranes were characterized by their increased content of 5'-nucleotidase and by electron microscopy, as well as by a greatly diminished content of NADH-cytochrome c reductase and succinate-cytochrome c reductase. The recovery of binding activity for taste ligands was low, because of the long...

Abstract: The Notch signaling pathway is involved in cell fate decisions during development. To explore the role of this signaling cascade in the taste system, we investigated the expression patterns of Notch signaling genes in fetal and adult mouse tongues using in situ hybridization. Three of the four murine Notch receptors, their ligands, Delta-like 1 (Dll-1), Jagged1, and Jagged2, as well as three transcription factors, Hes1, Hes6, and Mash1, are expressed in the embryonic taste epithelium. Expression is first detected in the circumvallate papilla at embryonic day E14.5, when Notch1, Jagged1, and Ja...

Abstract: The taste receptor membrane fraction (Fraction P2) was prepared from a homogenate of the taste tissue of the channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus. This included the rostral, dorsal, and dorsolateral surfaces of the catfish in addition to those of the barbels. The yield of Fraction P2 is 4-7 mg protein from an individual fish, with a purification averaging 8- to 15-fold over that of the crude whole homogenate and essentially quantitative recovery of binding activity in Fraction P2. Treatment of Fraction P2 in vitro with a high concentration of the taste stimulus molecule L-alanine led to a sever...

Abstract: Recent studies have suggested that the response profiles of taste-responsive cells in the brainstem may be modulated by inhibitory interactions, potentially originating from activity in peripheral taste nerves. This idea was explored by testing the hypothesis that brief (100 msec) pulses of taste stimuli would alter the responses to subsequently presented tastants in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) of urethane-anesthetized rats. Pulses of taste stimuli, called prepulses, were followed by a 3 sec presentation of the same or different taste stimulus. The prepulse-stimulus interval was ei...

Abstract: The binding site of gurmarin, a peptide inhibiting the sweet-taste sensation, was studied in taste buds in rat circumvallate papillae by means of a histochemical technique. Frozen sections of tongues were incubated with gurmarin conjugated with biotin and thereafter examined with a light microscope. Positive reactivity for the peptide was localized to the taste hairs, the apical projections of taste bud cells. The reaction appeared in about 10% of the circumvallate taste buds examined. As electrophysiological studies indicate that gurmarin suppresses the sweet-taste sensation at the level of r...

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To observe the ultrastructural features of taste pores and taste pits of human taste buds. METHODS: Three samplers obtained randomly from adults were divided into two perts, and transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy were used to observe the fine structure of taste buds in human circumvallate papillae. RESULTS: The longer diameter of the taste pores was 1.02 - 7.36 microm, and most of taste pores contained no taste hair and dense material, and the profile of taste pit was triangular. CONCLUSIONS: Taste hair and dense material were seldom observed in most o...

Abstract: 1. The responses of rat chorda tympani nerve to various salts carrying cations of large molecular size which have small permeability were measured. 2. Salts carrying polyvalent cations such as Fe3+ or La3+ elicited much larger responses than NaCl or KCl. 3. Ammonium chloride derivatives having methyl or ethyl groups and salts carrying other organic cations of large molecular size elicited the responses comparable to that induced by NH4Cl or NaCl. 4. It was suggested that the taste responses to the salts carrying the cations of large molecular size are induced not by the cation transport but by...

Abstract: Rat taste nerve responses to salts carrying cations of large molecular size; are the taste responses to the salts induced by cation transport across apical membranes of taste cells? Nakamura M, Kurihara K. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. 1. The responses of rat chorda tympani nerve to various salts carrying cations of large molecular size which have small permeability were measured. 2. Salts carrying polyvalent cations such as Fe3+ or La3+ elicited much larger responses than NaCl or KCl. 3. Ammonium chloride derivatives having methyl or ethyl groups ...

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