New insights into the signal transmission from taste cells to gustatory nerve fibers

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 279, Issue C, 2010, Pages 101-134

  Yoshida, Ryusuke ^a   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gustatory nerve fibers; Signal transmission; Synapse; Taste cells; Taste quality

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SEROTONIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

BIODIVERSITY; BOOK; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TYPE; CHORDA TYMPANI; ENTROPY; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 77957740854     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1937-6448(10)79004-3     Document Type: Article

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