Taste buds are sensory organs in jawed vertebrates, composed of distinct cell types that detect and transduce specific taste qualities. Taste bud cells differentiate from oropharyngeal epithelial progenitors, which are ...

A class of sweet-tasting proteins from tropical forest plant fruits has been studied for their sweetening potential and also for their taste-modifier activity. The taste-modifier proteins have the ability to change bitter ...

Los órganos de los sentidos confieren a los seres humanos la capacidad de percibir y responder a una gran gama de estímulos que provienen del entorno, lo cual nos brinda la facultad de elaborar respuestas con el fin de ...

Background: This systematic review had three aims: i) to determine the frequency of anosmia (or other smell disorders) and dysgeusia (or other taste disorders) in COVID-19 patients; ii) to determine whether anosmia or ...

Taste recognition is a robust procedure to study learning and memory processes, as well as the different stages involved in them, i.e. encoding, storage and recall. Considerable evidence indicates that adrenal hormones and ...

The taste reactivity test is considered as an objective measure to assess the hedonic impact of tastes. Both the appetitive and aversive pattern of responses are plastic and can change based on previous experience. The ...