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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 ...