ReviewCurrent nutrition reports2021
To Detect and Reject, Parallel Roles for Taste and Immunity.
Review in Current nutrition reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Lactoferrin and zinc sulfate supplementation alleviate cisplatin-induced taste disorder: underlying mechanisms via taste and immune modulation.NPJ science of food · 2026Article
- Reduced Fat Taste Sensitivity and Its Association with Childhood Obesity in Tunisian Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior-posterior insula circuit.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Intestinal Taste Receptor Expression and Its Implications for Health: An Integrative Analysis in Female Rats after Chronic Insect Supplementation.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2024Article
- The Bittersweet Symphony of COVID-19: Associations betweenLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Alteration of taste perception, food neophobia and oral microbiota composition in children with food allergy.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sprague Dawley Rats Gaining Weight on a High Energy Diet Exhibit Damage to Taste Tissue Even after Return to a Healthy Diet.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Obesity-induced taste dysfunction, and its implications for dietary intake.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Review
- Do Gut Microbes Taste?Nutrients · 2021Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewFrom single cells to entire organisms, biological entities are in constant communication with their surroundings, deciding what to 'allow' in, and what to reject. In very different ways, the immune and taste systems both fulfill this function, with growing evidence suggesting a relationship between the two, through shared signaling pathways, receptors, and feedback loops. The purpose of this review was to explore recent reports on taste and immunity in model animals and in humans to explore our understanding of the interplay between these systems. RECENT
findingsAcute infections in the upper airway, as with SARS-CoV-2, are associated with a proinflammatory state, and blunted taste perception. Further, recent findings highlight taste receptors working as immune sentinels throughout the body. Work in humans and mice also points to inflammation from obesity impacting taste, altering taste bud abundance and composition. There is accumulating evidence that taste cells, and particularly their receptors, play a role in airway and gut immunity, responsive to invading organisms. Inflammation itself may further act on taste buds and other taste receptor expressing cells throughout the body as a form of homeostatic control.
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