Cell types and lineages in taste buds

TE Finger - Chemical senses, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Taste buds are the sensory endorgans for gustation. In mammals, taste buds comprise a
collection of~ 50–100 elongate epithelial cells and a small number of proliferative basal …

Taste buds as peripheral chemosensory processors

SD Roper - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Taste buds are peripheral chemosensory organs situated in the oral cavity. Each taste bud
consists of a community of 50–100cells that interact synaptically during gustatory …

[HTML][HTML] Functional cell types in taste buds have distinct longevities

I Perea-Martinez, T Nagai, N Chaudhari - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Taste buds are clusters of polarized sensory cells embedded in stratified oral epithelium. In
adult mammals, taste buds turn over continuously and are replenished through the birth of …

[HTML][HTML] Review series: The cell biology of taste

N Chaudhari, SD Roper - The Journal of cell biology, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Taste buds are aggregates of 50–100 polarized neuroepithelial cells that detect nutrients
and other compounds. Combined analyses of gene expression and cellular function reveal …

[HTML][HTML] Mouse taste cells with G protein-coupled taste receptors lack voltage-gated calcium channels and SNAP-25

TR Clapp, KF Medler, S Damak, RF Margolskee… - BMC biology, 2006 - Springer
Background Taste receptor cells are responsible for transducing chemical stimuli from the
environment and relaying information to the nervous system. Bitter, sweet and umami stimuli …

“Tripartite synapses” in taste buds: a role for type I glial-like taste cells

YA Rodriguez, JK Roebber… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
In mammalian taste buds, Type I cells comprise half of all cells. These are termed “glial-like”
based on morphologic and molecular features, but there are limited studies describing their …

Communication routes within the taste bud by neurotransmitters and neuropeptides

S Herness, FL Zhao, N Kaya, T Shen, SG Lu… - Chemical …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Taste receptor cells (TRCs) are located throughout the oral cavity, sequestered into
morphological structures known as taste buds. These differentiated epithelial cells relay the …

Analysis of cell lineage relationships in taste buds

LM Stone, SS Tan, PPL Tam… - Journal of Neuroscience, 2002 - Soc Neuroscience
Taste buds are a heterogeneous population of cells exhibiting diverse morphological and
biochemical characteristics. Because taste buds arise from multiple progenitors, the different …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in taste transduction and signaling

SC Kinnamon, TE Finger - F1000Research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the last few years, single-cell profiling of taste cells and ganglion cells has advanced our
understanding of transduction, encoding, and transmission of information from taste buds as …

New insights into the signal transmission from taste cells to gustatory nerve fibers

R Yoshida, Y Ninomiya - International review of cell and molecular biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Taste receptor cells detect chemical compounds in the oral cavity and transfer their
messages to gustatory afferent nerve fibers. Considering the coding of taste information, the …