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 …

The sense of taste, or gustation, is mediated by taste buds, which are housed in specialized
taste papillae found in a stereotyped pattern on the surface of the tongue. Each bud …

Leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 (Lgr5) and its homologs (eg,
Lgr6) mark adult stem cells in multiple tissues. Recently, we and others have shown that …

The year 2020 became the year of the outbreak of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which
escalated into a worldwide pandemic and continued into 2021. One of the unique symptoms …

Diverse specialised neuroglial cells guarantee the development, preservation, and health of
the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system, the enteric nervous system, and …

Taste is one of the fundamental senses, and it is essential for our ability to ingest nutritious
substances and to detect and avoid potentially toxic ones. Taste buds, which are clusters of …

The sense of taste relies on well-defined neuroanatomical structures, namely, the taste buds
and afferent nerve fibers. Taste buds are clusters of 50–100 neuroepithelial cells located …

Taste buds comprise four types of taste cells: three mature, elongate types, Types I–III; and
basally situated, immature postmitotic type, Type IV cells. We employed serial blockface …

The integrity of taste buds is intimately dependent on an intact gustatory innervation, yet the
molecular nature of this dependency is unknown. Here, we show that differentiation of new …

Gustation or the sense of taste is a primary sense, which functions as a gatekeeper for
substances that enter the body. Animals, including humans, ingest foods that contain …