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Seven Transmembrane Receptors in Tongue Epithelia

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Olfaction and Taste XI

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Taste transduction triggered by a variety of taste stimuli such as sweetness and bitterness is supposedly mediated by taste receptor cells in the taste buds of the tongue [1–3]. Several lines of physiologic evidence have revealed that taste-signaling may be related to other types of sensory signaling, such as phototransduction [4–6] and olfactory transduction [7,8] in terms of the neurotransmitters [9,10] and second messengers including cyclic nucleotides (cAMP and cGMP) [11,12] and calcium ion [13]. However, the molecular mechanism of taste transduction remains obscure, except for the recent identification of a novel taste-cell-specific G-protein (α-gustducin) [14].

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  1. Department of Agricultural Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113, Japan

    Soichi Arai

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  1. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, N-13 W-6, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060, Japan

    Kenzo Kurihara D.S. (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Animal Behavior and Intelligence, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, N-10 W-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060, Japan

    Noriyo Suzuki D.S. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Physiology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, 2-2-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, 860, Japan

    Hisashi Ogawa M.D., D.M.S. (Professor) (Professor)

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Abe, K., Arai, S. (1994). Seven Transmembrane Receptors in Tongue Epithelia. In: Kurihara, K., Suzuki, N., Ogawa, H. (eds) Olfaction and Taste XI. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68355-1_26

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