Background: To measure sensory taste perception in children with an accurate and reproducible method is challenging and objective measurement methods are scarce. Objective: Aim was to characterize sensory taste perception, by measuring the number of fungiform papillae (FP) and to investigate whether the number of FP is associated with sensitivity for bitter taste and with taste preferences for ...

We aimed to test whether tyrosine phosphorylation of the NMDA receptor (NMDAR) in the insular cortex is necessary for novel taste learning. We found that in rats, novel taste learning leads to elevated phosphorylation of tyrosine 1472 of the NR2B subunit of the NMDAR and increases the interaction of phosphorylated NR2B with the major postsynaptic scaffold protein PSD-95. Injection of the tyrosi...

A blood examination was carried out in order to assess the serum zinc level in a patient with taste dysfunction. A blood cell count was also performed simultaneously and promyelocytic leukemia was identified. This case provides an example of leukemia being detected at the time of a blood test being given to assess taste dysfunction.

Amiloride-insensitive sodium taste transduction is severely limited by large anions (i.e., gluconate). We found that in a brief-access taste test, sodium-depleted rats exhibited similar levels of increased licking to several sodium salts regardless of anion but did not increase licking to nonsodium salts compared with water. The enhanced licking of sodium salts was abolished in the presence of ...

Taste is involved in food preference and choice, and it is thought that it can modulate appetite and food intake. The present study investigated the effect of savory or sweet taste on satiation, reward, and food intake and according to individual differences in eating behavior traits underlying susceptibility to overeating. In a crossover design, 30 women (BMI = 22.7 ± 2.3; age = 21.9 ± 2.6 y) ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of taster status with taste detection and recognition thresholds for sucrose and quinine. DESIGN Sixty-nine subjects (35 men and 34 women; mean age, 23.9+/-1.2 years) were included. Stimulus fluids were prepared, one each for phenylthiocarbamide (PTC), 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP), sucrose and quinine HCl. In each series, succ...

This paper designs methods of product differences testing and preference testing by using triangle taste tests data. Binomial distribution theory and hypothesis test method are employed since that the existing statistical inference methods of triangle taste tests methods for sensory and quality analysis of cigarette products have some shortcomings. Finally, two case studies are provided, which ...

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) elicits a taste called umami and interacts synergistically with nucleotide monophosphates such as 5'-inosine monophosphate (IMP) to potentiate this taste intensity. Indeed, the synergistic interaction of nucleotide monophosphates and MSG is a hallmark of umami. We examined interactions between MSG and other taste stimuli, including IMP, by measuring the lick rates of ...