Modulation of Peripheral Taste Function by Glial-like Taste Cells
Taste is detected by cells of taste buds in the oral cavity. Mammalian taste buds contain three types of cells: receptor, presynaptic, and glial-like. Of these three, glial-like cells are the least studied. Their only known function is that they clear neurotransmitters from the extracellular spac...
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Scholarly Repository
2012
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| Online Access: | http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/715 |