Human taste: Peripheral anatomy, taste transduction, and coding

Advances in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2006, Pages 152-190

  Breslin, Paul A S ^a   Huang, Liquan ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTOR 1, HUMAN;

BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE BUD; TONGUE;

BRAIN; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TONGUE;

EID: 33746646002     PISSN: 00653071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000093760     Document Type: Review

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