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Taste Bud-Derived BDNF Is Required to Maintain Normal Amounts of Innervation to Adult Taste Buds.
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- EGR4 is critical for cell-fate determination and phenotypic maintenance of geniculate ganglion neurons underlying sweet and umami taste.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- Physiology of the tongue with emphasis on taste transduction.Physiological reviews · 2023Review
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor overexpression in taste buds diminishes chemotherapy induced taste loss.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- The BDNF/TrkB Neurotrophin System in the Sensory Organs of Zebrafish.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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- Targeting the BDNF/TrkB pathway for the treatment of tumors.Oncology letters · 2019Review
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Abstract
Gustatory neurons transmit chemical information from taste receptor cells, which reside in taste buds in the oral cavity, to the brain. As adult taste receptor cells are renewed at a constant rate, nerve fibers must reconnect with new taste receptor cells as they arise. Therefore, the maintenance of gustatory innervation to the taste bud is an active process. Understanding how this process is regulated is a fundamental concern of gustatory system biology. We speculated that because brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is required for taste bud innervation during development, it might function to maintain innervation during adulthood. If so, taste buds should lose innervation when Bdnf is deleted in adult mice. To test this idea, we first removed Bdnf from all cells in adulthood using transgenic mice with inducible CreERT2 under the control of the Ubiquitin promoter. When Bdnf was removed, approximately one-half of the innervation to taste buds was lost, and taste buds became smaller because of the loss of taste bud cells. Individual taste buds varied in the amount of innervation each lost, and those that lost the most innervation also lost the most taste bud cells. We then tested the idea that that the taste bud was the source of this BDNF by reducing Bdnf levels specifically in the lingual epithelium and taste buds. Taste buds were confirmed as the source of BDNF regulating innervation. We conclude that BDNF expressed in taste receptor cells is required to maintain normal levels of innervation in adulthood.
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