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ArticleNeuron2018

Opening a "Wide" Window onto Taste Signal Transmission.

Yuki Oka

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Article in Neuron, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The New Wave of Blocking Taste.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Yuki OkaCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. Electronic address: yoka@caltech.edu.

Funding

Neural circuits underlying thirst and satiety regulationR01NS109997 · NINDS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI OKA, YUKI · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Genetic dissection of the neural circuits regulating appetiteR56MH113030 · NIMH · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI OKA, YUKI · 2017 to 2018
$825k
NIMH NIH HHS R56 MH113030NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS109997
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Taste bud cells for sweet, umami, and bitter transmit sensory signals without a synapse. A study by Ma et al. (2018) finds a key ATP-permeable pore-forming subunit required for rapid neurotransmission from the tongue to secondary taste neurons.

Indexed as

TasteTaste BudsIon ChannelsSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionIon Channels

Identifiers

PMID29723496
PMCPMC6050409

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