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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Main Authors: Andrew M Rosen, Andre T Roussin, Patricia M Di Lorenzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2010.00175/full