Water as an Independent Taste Modality
To qualify as a basic taste quality or modality, defined as a group of chemicals that taste alike, three empirical benchmarks have commonly been used. The first is that a candidate group of tastants must have a dedicated transduction mechanism in the peripheral nervous system. The second is that t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2010-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2010.00175/full |