Texture perception of foods is a common yet remarkably unstudied biophysical problem. Motivated by recent experiments reporting the presence of corpuscular endings in tongue filiform papillae, we develop in this work a mechanical model of the human tongue covered with filiform papillae in the form of elastic beams. Considering the typical flows that occur in the mouth during oral evaluation of ...

In our previous studies, we found that the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) binding and guanylyl cyclase activity of A-type natriuretic peptide receptors (NPR-A) were upregulated in renal papillae but downregulated in vascular tissues and glomeruli of rats with deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertension [E. Nuglozeh, G. Gauquelin, R. Garcia, J. Tremblay, and E. L. Schiffrin. Am. J. Ph...

Two new species of habronematid nematodes are described in birds from the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Torquatoides trogoni n. sp., in Trogon massena, can be distinguished from T. torquata, T. bengalensis, and T. crotophaga in lacking lateral alae. Among species lacking lateral alae, the new species differs from T. balanocephala in having 14 versus 8-10 cephalic cuticular plaque...

Mononchoides composticola was isolated during a survey on free living nematodes from vermicompost in Iran. This population of M. composticola is characterised by a dorsal claw-like tooth; 7-9 µm long and 3-5 µm wide, 14-15 finely visible longitudinal ridges on the cuticle, in which each ridge comprises two lines, long spicules (39-45 μm long), a short gubernaculum (15-17 µm or less than half of...

It is now well established that the anal papillae of culicine larvae secrete salts from the dilute external medium into the body (Koch, 1938; Ramsay, 1953; Stobbart, i960). In the case of the larvae of Aides aegypti the exchange and net transport of sodium through the papillae have been studied in some detail (Treherne, 1954; Stobbart, 1959, i960) and it appears that the sodium pump in the papi...

The volumes of the dermal papilla, matrix and fully grown hair of vibrissal follicles of rats and mice were measured. Dermal papillae were surgically removed from rats' vibrissal follicles and a small new dermal papilla was always reformed. The lower third of rats and mice follicles, containing the whole of the dermal papilla was amputated and very small dermal papillae were reformed. Follicles...

Proteins in papillae on the bovine tongue were analyzed by semi-micro, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. All the proteins in the papillae with taste buds were observed to be common to proteins in the surrounding epithelium without taste buds. The protein band which was reported to form a weak complex with compounds called sweet by man was also found in all parts of the tongue epithelium. The ...

Dermoscopic features of a black hairy tongue have never been reported. Dermoscopy might be useful in speculating pathologic features of oral lesions. The objective was to identify additional dermoscopic criteria. Two Japanese patients who were clinically given a diagnosis of "black hairy tongue" were evaluated for dermoscopic features. We have shown characteristic dermoscopic features of browni...

Three-dimensional structures of connective tissue papillae of the human gingiva were studied by scanning electron microscopy. Specimens were obtained from human cadavers fixed with 10% formaldehyde. The free gingiva, attached gingiva and alveolar mucosa were excised from the incisor, canine and molar regions. They were further fixed with 2.5% glutaraldehyde and treated with 2 N NaOH for 2 weeks...