The cellular mechanism for water detection in the mammalian taste system

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 927-933

  Zocchi, Dhruv ^a   Wennemuth, Gunther ^b   Oka, Yuki ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSORY SYSTEM; SODIUM APPETITE; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SOUR TASTE; TASTE BUD CELL; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE; THIRST; TRACHEOTOMY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL MEMORY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CHORDA TYMPANI; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE;

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; PKD2L1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; WATER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION; WATER;

EID: 85021397703     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4575     Document Type: Article

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