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Mar. 23, 2023 — The activation of taste receptors by various food molecules triggers specific pathways, resulting in the sensation of taste. The association of chloride ion, a component of table salt, with a sweet ...
June 29, 2021 — Patients who had their wisdom teeth extracted had improved tasting abilities decades after having the surgery, according to a new ...
July 27, 2021 — The fruit fly has multiple taste organs throughout its body to detect chemicals, called tastants, that signal whether a food is palatable or harmful. It is still unclear, however, how individual ...
Feb. 16, 2022 — Taste loss in people infected with COVID-19 is in fact genuine and distinguishable from smell loss. A new study examines the prevalence of taste loss in COVID-19 patients and how the way the symptom ...
Sep. 9, 2022 — New research has revealed the extent of sensory loss among people suffering from long COVID, with around 30 percent reporting a decreased sense of smell, and a similar number finding their sense of ...
Dec. 15, 2021 — What you eat influences your taste for what you might want to eat next. So claims a new study performed on fruit flies. The study offers a better understanding of neurophysiological plasticity of the ...
Oct. 19, 2021 — Scientists describe the first-in-human demonstration of a pathway that uses the sugar glucose, a component of table sugar and high fructose corn syrup, to signal the presence of calories, in addition ...
Mar. 21, 2022 — Biologists have found that the brain categorizes taste, temperature and pain-related sensations in a common region of the brain and that the brain also groups these sensations together as either ...
Oct. 25, 2021 — One of the most common and disturbing side effects of COVID-19 is the loss of the sense of smell. New research has found some common coping mechanisms that helped COVID-19 patients deal with a ...
Mar. 20, 2023 — Scientists identified a previously unknown chloride ion channel, which they named alkaliphile (Alka), as a taste receptor for alkaline ...
