Reduced taste sensitivity in congenital blindness.

abstract：:Suppression of the saltiness of NaCl solutions by amiloride, a sodium channel blocker, has previously been reported a number of times in humans. This suppression was seen with techniques that involved stimulation of small areas of the tongue. It was not certain, however, whether amiloride would suppress saltiness with...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Tennissen AM,McCutcheon NB

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of individuals or classes of individuals plays an important role in the communication systems of many mammals. The ability of otariid (i.e., fur seal and sea lion) females to locate and identify their offspring in colonies after returning from regular foraging trips is essential to successful pup rearing. ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Wierucka K,Barthes N,Pitcher BJ,Schaal B,Charrier I,Harcourt RG

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Chemical Senses, Baker et al. propose a provocative and intriguing explanation for a commonly observed phenomenon in moth chemocommunication. Sex pheromones in moths typically consist of mixtures of long-chain unsaturated compounds in specific ratios. These ratios are correspondingly detected by male ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Olsson SB,Hansson BS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect odorant receptors (ORs) function as heteromeric odorant-gated ion channels consisting of a conserved coreceptor, Orco, and an odorant-sensitive tuning subunit. Although some OR modulators have been identified, an extended library of pharmacological tools is currently lacking and would aid in furthering our unde...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Pask GM,Bobkov YV,Corey EA,Ache BW,Zwiebel LJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured concentration detection (i.e., psychometric) functions to determine the odor detectability of homologous aliphatic aldehydes (propanal, butanal, hexanal, octanal, and nonanal) and helional. Subjects (16 < or = n < or = 18) used a 3-alternative forced-choice procedure against carbon-filtered air (blank...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Cometto-Muñiz JE,Abraham MH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sweet taste of sucrose acts as an analgesic, whereas the taste of a bitter substance decreases pain tolerance. The present experiment explores the analgesic effect of a complex taste and asks how adding cocoa, a substance often associated with sweet foods but that has a bitter taste, to a sucrose solution affects ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Eggleston K,White TL,Sheehe PR

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phantosmia, the perception of an odor when there are no odorants in the environment, can be a very debilitating symptom. In the 1960s, Zilstorff reported olfactory distortions could be treated by the topical application of a cocaine solution to the olfactory epithelium. In evaluating this treatment, we observed no lon...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Leopold DA,Hornung DE

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory perception is highly variable from one person to another, as a function of individual and contextual factors. Here, we investigated the influence of 2 important factors of variation: culture and semantic information. More specifically, we tested whether cultural-specific knowledge and presence versus absence...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Ferdenzi C,Joussain P,Digard B,Luneau L,Djordjevic J,Bensafi M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there have been a number of important advances in the understanding of cellular mechanisms related to olfactory function. Hypotheses regarding the complex relationships among odorant structure, physiological activity and behavioral outcome generated by these findings, however, remain largely untested d...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Dorries KM,White J,Kauer JS

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is important for activating accessory olfactory pathways that are involved in sexually dimorphic mating behavior. The VNO of male garter snakes is critically important for detection of, and response to, female sex pheromones. In the present study, under voltage-clamp conditions, male snake ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Huang GZ,Zhang JJ,Wang D,Mason RT,Halpern M

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In social insects, recognition of nestmates from aliens is based on olfactory cues, and many studies have demonstrated that such cues are contained within the lipid layer covering the insect cuticle. These lipids are usually a complex mixture of tens of compounds in which aliphatic hydrocarbons are generally the major...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Dani FR,Jones GR,Corsi S,Beard R,Pradella D,Turillazzi S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associative plasticity is a basic essential attribute of nervous systems. As shown by numerous reports, Drosophila is able to establish simple forms of appetitive and aversive olfactory associations at both larval and adult stages. Whereas most adult studies on aversive learning employed electric shock as a negative r...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Pauls D,Pfitzenmaier JE,Krebs-Wheaton R,Selcho M,Stocker RF,Thum AS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytic cells in the taste buds of rat circumvallate papillae after the sectioning of bilateral glossopharyngeal nerves were examined by electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry. Electron micrographs taken 1 day after denervation revealed that flat-shaped cells were present just beneath the taste buds and that ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Suzuki Y,Takeda M,Obara N,Nagai Y

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which the sodium salt of +/-2-(4-methoxyphenoxy)propanoic acid (Na-PMP) reduced sweet intensity ratings of 15 sweeteners in mixtures. Na-PMP has been approved for use in confectionary/frostings, soft candy and snack products in the USA at concentrations up to 15...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Schiffman SS,Booth BJ,Sattely-Miller EA,Graham BG,Gibes KM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In chum salmon captured at the coastal sea and the natal river, the magnitudes of the olfactory nerve responses to the amino acids after perfusion of the olfactory epithelium with artificial pond water (APW) were similar to those after perfusion with artificial sea water (ASW), although the concentrations of Na+, Cl- ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Shoji T,Fujita K,Ban M,Hiroi O,Ueda H,Kurihara K

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suitability of Beidler's mixture equation for mixtures of sucrose and maltitol as well as for mixtures of sucrose and aspartame was examined in the presence of an orange aroma. The mean scores for the attribute sweet remained constant for each combination of sucrose and maltitol and for each combination of sucrose...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Nahon DF,Roozen JP,de Graaf C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no natural physical continuum for odor quality along which an odor quality discrimination (OQD) threshold can be measured. In an attempt to overcome this problem, the substitution-reciprocity (SURE) method defines a framework for the measurement of an OQD threshold. More specifically, it (i) defines a thresho...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Olsson MJ,Cain WS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ability to perceive the bitter compound phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) is inherited via a dominant "taster" allele of the TAS2R38 gene, whereas inability is inherited via a recessive "non-taster" allele. This raises a question: Is the non-taster allele functionless, or does it mediate perception of compounds other than PTC...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Wooding SP

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory lamellae of teleosts contain two morphologically different types of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs): ciliated ORNs (cORNs) and microvillous ORNs (mORNs). However, little is known about the functional difference between these two types of ORNs in fish olfaction. We isolated cORNs and mORNs using a Ca(2+)-fr...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Sato K,Suzuki N

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An odor emitted by an object signals the presence of that object and may draw attention to it. Can odors that are not actually emitted by an object also function as a signal? We investigated whether the degree of thematic congruency between an ambient odor and a magazine affected magazine sales in a retail store. We s...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Schifferstein HN,Blok ST

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to develop a semantically labeled hedonic scale (LHS) that would yield ratio-level data on the magnitude of liking/disliking of sensation equivalent to that produced by magnitude estimation (ME). The LHS was constructed by having 49 subjects who were trained in ME rate the semantic magn...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Lim J,Wood A,Green BG

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigated the potential for facial electromyography (EMG) to be used as a clinical tool for measuring the responses of children to pleasant and unpleasant smell and taste stimuli. Responses in the zygomaticus major and levator labii muscles to 4 odorants and 4 tastants were recorded from 34 children aged ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Armstrong JE,Hutchinson I,Laing DG,Jinks AL

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular neuronal responses were recorded from the posterior insular cortex following electrical and chemical stimulation of the thalamic reticular nucleus (Rt) regions. In the present study, most neurons (29/32) were first characterized for their responses to electrical stimulation of the superior laryngeal (SL)...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Hanamori T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast number of detectable odors makes matching olfactory receptors (ORs) to their ligands a daunting task. Krautwurst and colleagues have hypothesized that this process can be simplified by focusing on those odorants that are perceptually relevant food odors. In this issue of Chemical Senses, they use this framewo...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Trimmer C,Mainland JD

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central projections of olfactory receptor cells associated with two distinct types of antennal sensilla in the sphinx moth Manduca sexta were revealed by anterograde staining. In both sexes, receptor axons that arise from sexually isomorphic, type-II trichoid sensilla (and possibly some basiconic sensilla) project...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Christensen TA,Harrow ID,Cuzzocrea C,Randolph PW,Hildebrand JG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical signals are common in most crustacean social interactions and are often perceived via chemosensory (olfactory) organs on the first antenna. Intermolt courtship behaviors and mating were investigated in size-matched pairs of intermolt European lobsters (Homarus gammarus) where the olfactory receptors of either...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Skog M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats trained on a series of 16 novel 2-odor discrimination tasks using a 10-s intertrial interval (ITI) rapidly improved in performance and made only 0-3 errors by the end of the test series. They were then tested on other novel pairs of odors, but with a 10- and a 30-min interval between trials. There was no decremen...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Lovelace CT,Slotnick BM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong electrical stimulation (ES) of the frog glossopharyngeal (GP) efferent nerve induced slow depolarizing potentials (DPs) in taste cells under hypoxia. This study aimed to elucidate whether the slow DPs were postsynaptically induced in taste cells. After a block of parasympathetic nerve (PSN) ganglia by tubocurar...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Sato T,Nishishita K,Okada Y,Toda K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation of the frog glossopharyngeal (GP) nerve evoked slow hyperpolarizing potentials (HPs) in taste cells. This study aimed to clarify whether slow HPs were postsynaptically induced in taste cells. The slow HPs were recorded intracellularly with a microelectrode. When Ca2+ concentration in the blood p...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Sato T,Okada Y,Toda K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regarding the chemotaxis of sperms, new insights have been gained during the last 20 years. Olfactory receptors are expressed on the flagellar midpiece of human spermatogenic cells. One of them, OR1D2, is also expressed in the olfactory epithelium. This receptor has been suggested to play a role in sperm chemotaxis an...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Sinding C,Kemper E,Spornraft-Ragaller P,Hummel T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00