Introduction: Smoking has adverse effects on the body such as various types of cancer, coronary heart diseases, stroke, peripheral vascular and oral changes including decreased taste sensation. There have been many studies smoking threshold, but specific in a group young adult males data frequency tongue cleaning habits not reported. This study aims to determine salty threshold healthy male smo...

Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate olfactory, gustatory, and quality-of-life outcomes in patients who underwent endonasal transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. Methods In prospective study, the were assessed subjectively using Malay version sQOD-NS (short questionnaire olfactory disorders a negative statement) objectively culturally adapted Sniffin’ Sticks smell test taste preop...

BACKGROUND In resourced-constrained settings, daily cooking practices are still the norm. Replacing sodium in regular salt to produce potassium-enriched salts are potential alternative routes to reduce sodium intake, paired with the benefit associated with potassium intake. This change would likely have effects on palatability and taste of prepared foods, yet a threshold to discriminate sensori...

Taste sensory responses from the chorda tympani nerve of the rat were recorded with the lingual receptive field under current or voltage clamp. Consistent with previous results (Ye, Q., G. L. Heck, and J. A. DeSimone. 1993. Journal of Neurophysiology. 70:167-178), responses to NaCl were highly sensitive to lingual voltage clamp condition. This can be attributed to changes in the electrochemical...

CONCLUSION Most of the clinical cases experienced taste disturbance after stapes surgery, and in a few cases this disturbance persisted for a long time. The animal experiment suggested the role of geniculate ganglion (GG) cells in nerve generation. OBJECTIVES To clinically examine taste disorder and its recovery after stapes surgery and experimentally demonstrate a role of GG. PATIENTS AND ...

BACKGROUND Little research has focused on whether there are individual differences among children in their sensitivity to sweet taste and, if so, the biological correlates of such differences. OBJECTIVES Our goal was to understand how variations in children's sucrose detection thresholds relate to their age and gender, taste genotype, body composition, and dietary intake of added sugars. ME...

Sprague-Dawley rats with intact (SHAM) and bilaterally transected chorda tympani nerves (CTX) received conditioned taste aversions (CTAs) to the free fatty acids (FFAs), linoleic and oleic acid, at micromolar quantities. Two-bottle preference tests showed that CTX eliminated avoidance of 88 muM linoleic acid but did not affect CTA avoidance of corn oil or 250 mM sucrose. Short-duration stimulus...

Taste response of the yearlings of carp Cyprinus carpio of 9–12 cm in length to 21 free amino acids (L = stereoisomeres) and classic taste substances is ascertained by in testing behavioral methods. It is found that these compounds can be divided by their taste properties into groups of substances that are highly attractive (cysteine, proline, glutamic and aspartic acids, alanine, glutamine, ci...

Past research on the relationship between taste sensitivity and fruit and vegetable (FV) intake in children has focused on sensitivity to bitter taste. The effects of sensitivity to sweet taste on intake of FV have never been investigated. Furthermore, the effects of children's weight on intake of FV are inconclusive. This study measured the effects of Sucrose Detection Threshold (SDT) and weig...