Taste bud formation depends on taste nerves

It has been known for more than a century that, in adult vertebrates, the maintenance of taste buds depends on their afferent nerves. However, the initial formation of taste buds is proposed to be nerve-independent in amphibians, and evidence to the contrary in mammals has been endlessly debated, mo...

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Main Authors: Di Fan, Zoubida Chettouh, G Giacomo Consalez, Jean-François Brunet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-10-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/49226