Salt stress is one of the major environmental stresses limiting plant growth and productivity.
To adapt to salt stress, plants have developed various strategies to integrate exogenous …

Interactions between the immune system and the nervous system have been described
mostly in the context of diseases. More recent studies have begun to reveal how certain …

The main neurological manifestation of COVID-19 is loss of smell or taste. The high
incidence of smell loss without significant rhinorrhea or nasal congestion suggests that …

Salinity is detrimental to plant growth, crop production and food security worldwide. Excess
salt triggers increases in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, which activate Ca2+-binding proteins …

Background & Aims Single-cell transcriptomics offer unprecedented resolution of tissue
function at the cellular level, yet studies analyzing healthy adult human small intestine and …

A complex bidirectional communication system exists between the gastrointestinal tract and
the brain. Initially termed the “gut-brain axis” it is now renamed the “microbiota-gut-brain …

Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

Tuft cells are rare, secretory epithelial cells that generated scant immunological interest until
contemporaneous reports in 2016 linked tuft cells with type 2 immunity in the small intestine …

Olfactory and taste receptors are expressed primarily in the nasal olfactory epithelium and
gustatory taste bud cells, where they transmit real-time sensory signals to the brain …

The sense of taste allows animals to sample chemicals in the environment prior to ingestion.
Of the five basic tastes, sour, the taste of acids, had remained among the most mysterious …