Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32185015›Full record

ReviewF1000Research2019

Recent advances in taste transduction and signaling.

Sue C Kinnamon, Thomas E Finger

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Review in F1000Research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. 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

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sue C KinnamonRocky Mountain Taste & Smell Center, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
Thomas E FingerRocky Mountain Taste & Smell Center, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
Rocky Mountain MS Center · US

Funding

Purinergic signaling in taste budsR01DC012555 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI KINNAMON, SUE C. · 2012 to 2021
$3.9M
Illuminating the structure and function of Type I taste cellsR01DC017679 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI KINNAMON, SUE C. · 2019 to 2023
$2.5M
Scanning Blockface EM of Murine and Human Taste BudsR01DC014728 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI FINGER, THOMAS E · 2015 to 2020
$1.9M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012555NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC014728NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017679
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last few years, single-cell profiling of taste cells and ganglion cells has advanced our understanding of transduction, encoding, and transmission of information from taste buds as relayed to the central nervous system. This review focuses on new knowledge from these molecular approaches and attempts to place this in the context of previous questions and findings in the field. The individual taste cells within a taste bud are molecularly specialized for detection of one of the primary taste qualities: salt, sour, sweet, umami, and bitter. Transduction and transmitter release mechanisms differ substantially for taste cells transducing sour (Type  III cells) compared with those transducing the qualities of sweet, umami, or bitter (Type II cells), although ultimately all transmission of taste relies on activation of purinergic P2X receptors on the afferent nerves. The ganglion cells providing innervation to the taste buds also appear divisible into functional and molecular subtypes, and each ganglion cell is primarily but not exclusively responsive to one taste quality.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionTasteTaste BudsAnimalsHumansNeuronsgeniculate ganglionnervous systempurinergic transmissionserotoninsignallingtastetaste budtransduction

Identifiers

PMID32185015
PMCPMC7059786
OpenAlexW2994707866

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