Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26534983›Full record

ReviewDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2015

Progress and renewal in gustation: new insights into taste bud development.

Linda A Barlow

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Review in Development (Cambridge, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
86citing papers in PubMed
8.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed, 174 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Nutrient Sensing by Lingual G-Protein-Coupled Taste Receptors.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  6. Developing and regenerating a sense of taste.Current topics in developmental biology · 2025
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  9. Miniaturized, portable gustation interfaces for VR/AR/MR.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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26 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Linda A BarlowDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, Graduate Program in Cell Biology, Stem Cells and Development and the Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center, University of Colorado, School Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA linda.barlow@ucdenver.edu.
Rocky Mountain MS Center · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Adult Taste Bud RegenerationR01DC012383 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI BARLOW, LINDA A · 2012 to 2021
$3.4M
Tissue interactions in taste bud developmentR01DC012675 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI BARLOW, LINDA A · 2012 to 2016
$1.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS DC012383NIDCD NIH HHS DC012675NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012383NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012675
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sense of taste, or gustation, is mediated by taste buds, which are housed in specialized taste papillae found in a stereotyped pattern on the surface of the tongue. Each bud, regardless of its location, is a collection of ∼100 cells that belong to at least five different functional classes, which transduce sweet, bitter, salt, sour and umami (the taste of glutamate) signals. Taste receptor cells harbor functional similarities to neurons but, like epithelial cells, are rapidly and continuously renewed throughout adult life. Here, I review recent advances in our understanding of how the pattern of taste buds is established in embryos and discuss the cellular and molecular mechanisms governing taste cell turnover. I also highlight how these findings aid our understanding of how and why many cancer therapies result in taste dysfunction.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansTasteTaste BudsAgeusiaCell lineageChemotherapyDysgeusiaGustatory systemLingual organoidsMolecular geneticsSonic hedgehogStem cellsTaste budsTaste dysfunctionWnt/β-catenin

Identifiers

PMID26534983
PMCPMC4647210
OpenAlexW2192389430

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