2.One of the small, round or cone-shaped protuberances on the top of the tongue that contain taste buds. 3.A pimple or pustule. 4.BotanyA minute projection on the surface of a stigma, petal, or leaf. [Latin,nipple, diminutive ofpapula,swelling, pimple.] ...
Steven D. Mungeris associate director of the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste and professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Florida. Everybody has seen the tongue map – that little diagram of the tongue with different sections neatly cordoned off for different...
We utilized RT-PCR, immunocytochemistry and single-cell gene expression profiling to examine the expression of the Gαq family (q, 11, 14) in mouse taste buds. Results By RT-PCR, Gα14 is expressed strongly and in a taste selective manner in posterior (vallate and foliate), but not ...
To feel the taste of food, the taste pores in the oral cavity absorb the chemicals of food. The taste cells in the taste buds collect these chemical stimuli and create nerve impulses. The taste impulses from the tongue are first transferred to specialized cells in the brain stem by two ...
This diagram is the result ofresearchdone over 100 years ago. It has largely been abandoned by modernbiologists, although it remains published inscience textbooks. The gist is that the taste buds are localized in specific areas of thetongue, and that sensitivity to specifictastes are much higher...