Analyses of taste nerve responses with special reference to possible receptor mechanisms of umami taste in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 109-112

  Sako, Noritaka ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chorda tympani nerve; Electrophysiology; Glutamate; Rat; Receptor; Umami

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; KAINIC ACID; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; POTASSIUM; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; TASTE;

EID: 0033548030     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00019-1     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Bigiani A., Delay R.J., Chaudhari N., Kinnamon S.C., Roper S.D. Responses to glutamate in rat taste cells. J. Neurophysiol. 77:1997;3048-3059.
2. Chaudhari N., Yang H., Lamp C., Delay E., Cartford C., Than T., Roper S. The taste of monosodium glutamate: membrane receptors in taste buds. J. Neurosci. 16:1996;3817-3826.
3. Delay E.R., Beaver M.L., Strook M.L., Stapleton J.R., Roper S.D. Tests of taste preference synergism between glutamate agonists and IMP in rats. Chem. Senses. 22:1997;668.
4. Faurion A. Are umami taste receptor sites structurally related to glutamate CNS receptor sites? Physiol. Behav. 49:1991;905-912.
5. Flor P.J., Lukic S., Ruegg D., Leonhardt T., Knopfel T., Kuhn R. Molecular cloning, functional expression and pharmacological characterization of the human metabotropic glutamate receptor type 4. Neuropharmacology. 34:1995;149-155.
6. i in cell ensembles: application to the study of glutamate taste in mice. Biophys. J. 71:1996;1057-1070.
7. Imoto T., Miyasaka A., Ishima R., Akasaka K. A novel peptide isolated from the leaves of Gymnema sylvestre. I. Characterization and its suppressive effect on the neural responses to sweet taste stimuli in the rat. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A. 100:1991;309-314.
8. Kawamura, Y. and Kare, M.R. (Eds.), Umami, a Basic Taste, Dekker, New York, 1987.
9. Kinnamon S.C. Glutamate taste transduction. Chem. Senses. 22:1997;720.
10. Kinnamon S.C., Margolskee R.F. Mechanisms of taste transduction. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 6:1996;506-513.
11. Miyasaka A., Imoto T. Electrophysiological characterization of the inhibitory effect of a novel peptide on the sweet taste response in rats. Brain Res. 676:1995;63-68.
12. Ninomiya, Y. and Funakoshi, M., Qualitative discrimination among 'umami' and the four basic taste substances in mice. In Y. Kawamura and M.R. Kare (Eds.), Umami, a Basic Taste, Dekker, New York, 1987, pp. 365-385.
13. Sato M., Akaike N. 5′ Ribonucleotides as gustatory stimuli in rats: electrophysiological studies. Jpn. J. Physiol. 15:1965;53-70.
14. Yamaguchi S. Basic properties of umami and effects on humans. Physiol. Behav. 49:1991;833-841.
15. Yamamoto T., Matsuo R., Kiyomitsu Y., Kitamura R. Taste effects of 'umami' substances in hamsters as studied by electrophysiological and conditioned taste aversion techniques. Brain Res. 451:1988;147-162.
16. Yamamoto T., Matsuo R., Fujimoto Y., Fukunaga I., Miyasaka A., Imoto T. Electrophysiological and behavioral studies on the taste of umami substances in the rat. Physiol. Behav. 49:1991;919-925.