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ArticleChemical senses2011

The K+-H+ exchanger, nigericin, modulates taste cell pH and chorda tympani taste nerve responses to acidic stimuli.

Gregory R Sturz, Tam-Hao T Phan, Shobha Mummalaneni, Zuojun Ren, John A DeSimone, Vijay Lyall

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Article in Chemical senses, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Gregory R SturzDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1220 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Tam-Hao T Phan
Shobha Mummalaneni
Zuojun Ren
John A DeSimone
Vijay Lyall
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

Physiochemical Investigation of TasteR01DC000122 · NIDCD · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI LYALL, VIJAY · 1989 to 2010
$3.0M
Cellular Regulation of Salt Taste TransductionR01DC005981 · NIDCD · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI LYALL, VIJAY · 2004 to 2008
$1.3M
NIDCD NIH HHS DC-000122NIDCD NIH HHS DC-005981NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC000122NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC005981
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between acidic pH, taste cell pH(i), and chorda tympani (CT) nerve responses was investigated before and after incorporating the K(+)-H(+) exchanger, nigericin, in the apical membrane of taste cells. CT responses were recorded in anesthetized rats in vivo, and changes in pH(i) were monitored in polarized fungiform taste cells in vitro. Under control conditions, stimulating the tongue with 0.15 M potassium phosphate (KP) or 0.15 M sodium phosphate (NaP) buffers of pHs between 8.0 and 4.6, KP or NaP buffers did not elicit a CT response. Post-nigericin (500 × 10(-6) M), KP buffers, but not NaP buffers, induced CT responses at pHs ≤ 6.6. The effect of nigericin was reversed by the topical lingual application of carbonyl cyanide 3-chloro-phenylhydrazone, a protonophore. Post-nigericin (150 × 10(-6) M), KP buffers induced a greater decrease in taste cell pH(i) relative to NaP buffers and to NaP and KP buffers under control conditions. A decrease in pH(i) to about 6.9 induced by KP buffers was sufficient to elicit a CT response. The results suggest that facilitating apical H(+) entry via nigericin decreases taste cell pH(i) and demonstrates directly a strong correlation between pH(i) and the magnitude of the CT response.

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AcidsAnimalsChorda Tympani NerveFemaleHydrazonesHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationIonophoresNigericinRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTasteTaste BudsAcidscarbonyl 3-chlorophenylhydrazoneHydrazonesIonophoresNigericin

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PMCPMC3151661
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