Taste receptor cells use a variety of mechanisms to transduce chemical information into
cellular signals. Seven-transmembrane-helix receptors initiate signaling cascades by …

▪ Abstract Taste receptor cells respond to gustatory stimuli using a complex arrangement of
receptor molecules, signaling cascades, and ion channels. When stimulated, these cells …

Recent research on cellular mechanisms of peripheral taste has defined transduction
pathways involving membrane receptors, G proteins, second messengers, and ion …

The variety of taste sensations, including sweet, umami, bitter, sour, and salty, arises from
diverse taste cells, each of which expresses specific taste sensor molecules and associated …

The sense of taste plays a critical role in the life and nutritional status of humans and other
organisms. Human taste perception may be categorized according to four well known and …

Major advances in the understanding of mammalian gustatory transduction mechanisms
have occurred in the past decade. Recent research has revealed that a remarkable diversity …

The molecular machinery for chemosensory transduction in taste buds has received
considerable attention within the last decade. Consequently, we now know a great deal …

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 …

Taste receptor cells transduce sweet, sour, salty, and bitter chemicals into receptor
potentials that ultimately result in the perception of taste. The mechanisms involved in this …

Over the last decade, many of the molecular components that mediate the transduction of
taste signaling have been elucidated. The chemosensory receptors for taste have been …