Taste is important in guiding nutritive choices and motivating food intake. The sensory
organs for taste are the taste buds, that transduce gustatory stimuli into neural signals. It has …

Tongue squamous epithelial cells are the main component of tongue coating, with
proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis being the root cause of the formation and …

Taste papillae are specialized organs, each of which comprises an epithelial wall hosting
taste buds and a core of mesenchymal tissue. In the present study, we report that during …

Teeth and taste buds are iteratively patterned structures that line the oro-pharynx of
vertebrates. Biologists do not fully understand how teeth and taste buds develop from …

RNA-Seq is a powerful tool in transcriptomic profiling of cells and tissues. We recently
identified many more taste buds than previously appreciated in chickens using molecular …

Hair follicles (HFs) are regenerative miniorgans that offer a highly informative model system
to study the regulatory mechanisms of hair follicle stem cells (hfSCs) homeostasis and …

The physical and sensory properties of oil coatings on the tongue formed by five oil/water
emulsions varying in oil content were investigated. A total of 20 subjects processed orally …

We first studied the morphology and the development of goose denticulations, which
develop mainly by a ripple process, and the touch papillae of the bill tip organ, which …

The geese's tongue filiform papillae are particularly long, and exhibit the same morphology
of a tooth, evoking the lingual teeth of several fishes. In adult animals, they contain …

Objective Fungiform papillae contain taste buds and play a critical role in mastication and
the gustatory system. In this study, we report a series of sequential observations of …