Sweet Taste Is Complex: Signaling Cascades and Circuits Involved in Sweet Sensation

Sweet Taste Is Complex: Signaling Cascades and Circuits Involved in Sweet Sensation

Sweetness is the preferred taste of humans and many animals, likely because sugars are a primary source of energy. In many mammals, sweet compounds are sensed in the tongue by the gustatory organ, the taste buds. Here, a group of taste bud cells expresses a canonical sweet taste receptor, whose acti...

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Main Authors: Elena von Molitor, Katja Riedel, Michael Krohn, Mathias Hafner, Rüdiger Rudolf, Tiziana Cesetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
sweet taste receptor
signaling
gustducin
calcium
GLP-1
gastro-intestinal tract
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.667709/full

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