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 …

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 …

The past decade has witnessed a consolidation and refinement of the extraordinary
progress made in taste research. This Review describes recent advances in our …

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 …

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 …

Recent studies on how peripheral taste organs function have revealed a number of
intriguing membrane mechanisms underlying taste transduction. The story is still evolving …

The discovery of two families of mammalian taste receptors has provided important insights
into taste recognition and taste perception. Recent studies have examined the receptors and …

A longstanding question in taste research concerns taste coding and, in particular, how
broadly are individual taste bud cells tuned to taste qualities (sweet, bitter, umami, salty, and …

Mammalian taste buds are maintained through continuous cell renewal so that taste bud
cells are constantly generated from progenitor cells throughout life. Taste bud cells are …

Taste buds are aggregates of 50–100 cells, only a fraction of which express genes for taste
receptors and intracellular signaling proteins. We combined functional calcium imaging with …