Sentences with phrase «gustatory receptor»

In normal German cockroaches, glucose elicits activity in sugar gustatory receptor neurons, which react when exposed to sugars like glucose and fructose — components of corn syrup, a common roach - bait ingredient.

But in fruit flies, one type of gustatory receptor senses heat rather than smell or taste.

In previous studies, other gustatory receptors have been found to allow insects to smell carbon dioxide and to taste sugar and bitter chemicals like caffeine.

The newly discovered sensor belongs to a family of proteins, called gustatory receptors, that have been studied for over a decade but never linked to thermosensation, Garrity says.

Not exact matches

All taste fibers express ionotropic purinergic (P2X) receptors (Bo et al., 1999; Ishida et al., 2009) that are required for transmission from taste receptor cells to the afferent nerves; genetic deletion or pharmacological blockade of the P2X2 and P2X3 receptors expressed by the gustatory nerve fibers eliminates chorda tympani nerve responses to all taste stimuli (Finger et al., 2005; Ohkuri et al., 2012; Jaber et al., 2014; Vandenbeuch et al., 2015).

Postsynaptic P2 × 3 - containing receptors in gustatory nerve fibres mediate responses to all taste qualities in mice

In the present study, we demonstrate that a subset of gustatory sensory neurons express functional 5 - HT3 receptors that play a significant role in the neurotransmission of taste information from taste buds to nerves.

5 - HT1 receptors are expressed by type II taste cells and 5 - HT3 receptors are hypothesized to be expressed in gustatory nerve fibers (Jackson and Yakel, 1995; Wang et al., 2002).

We investigated whether gustatory afferents express functional 5 - HT3 receptors and, if so, whether these receptors play a role in transmission of taste information from taste buds to nerves.

In situ hybridization on sections of gustatory ganglia (geniculate, petrosal / nodose) and a somatosensory ganglion (trigeminal) were performed to reveal serotonin receptor gene expression at the cellular level.

They have refused the classic view of the tongue's flavour map, showing a uniform distribution of these receptors, and identifying regions specific to each flavour in the brain's gustatory cortex.