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  2. Taste receptor - Wikipedia

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    A taste receptor or tastant is a type of cellular receptor that facilitates the sensation of ... The diagram above depicts the signal transduction pathway of the ...

  3. Taste bud - Wikipedia

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    These are located on top of the taste receptor cells that constitute the taste buds. The taste receptor cells send information detected by clusters of various receptors and ion channels to the gustatory areas of the brain via the seventh, ninth and tenth cranial nerves. On average, the human tongue has 2,000–8,000 taste buds. [2]

  4. Tongue map - Wikipedia

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    The misinterpreted diagram that sparked this myth shows human taste buds distributed in a "taste belt" along the inside of the tongue. Prior to this, A. Hoffmann had concluded in 1875 that the dorsal center of the human tongue has practically no fungiform papillae and taste buds, [12] and it was this finding that the diagram describes.

  5. File:Signal Transaction of the Sweet Taste.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: The diagram above depicts the signal transduction pathway of the sweet taste. Object A is a taste bud, object B is one taste cell of the taste bud, and object C is the neuron attached to the taste cell. I. Part I shows the reception of a molecule. 1. Sugar, the first messenger, binds to a protein receptor on the cell membrane. II.

  6. Taste - Wikipedia

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    Taste bud. The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste. [1] Taste is the perception stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue.

  7. Gustatory nucleus - Wikipedia

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    To produce the sense of taste, these neurons project to the gustatory nucleus, or the rostral and lateral regions of the nucleus of the solitary tract, and are ultimately projected to the cerebral cortex. [3] The tongue contains taste receptors, that sends sensory information via action potential to the solitary nucleus.

  8. File:Signal Transaction of Taste; Sour & Salty.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Correction: Salty taste is in fact in Type I cells which don't have a synapse! The diagram depicts the signal transduction pathway of the sour taste. Object A is a taste bud, object B is a taste receptor cell within object A, and object C is the neuron attached to object B. I. Part I is the reception of hydrogen ions or sodium ions. 1.

  9. Gustatory cortex - Wikipedia

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    In particular, there are two main model of peripheral taste coding: a labelled-line model, which posits that each taste receptor codes for a specific taste quality (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami); and an across-fiber model, which proposes that taste perception arises from the combined activity of multiple unspecific taste receptors. [12]