Astringency: a more stringent definition

Astringency: a more stringent definition

Despite being an everyday sensory experience, the nature of astringency perception is not clear. In this issue of Chemical Senses, Schöbel et al. demonstrate that astringency is a trigeminal sensation in human, and astringents trigger a G protein-coupled pathway in trigeminal ganglion cells in the m...

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Veröffentlicht in:Chemical senses 2014-07, Vol.39 (6), p.467-469
Hauptverfasser: Jiang, Yue, Gong, Naihua N, Matsunami, Hiroaki
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Animals
Astringents - metabolism
GTP-Binding Proteins - metabolism
Humans
Mice
Mouth - physiology
Signal Transduction
Taste
Trigeminal Ganglion - cytology
Trigeminal Ganglion - physiology
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Zusammenfassung:Despite being an everyday sensory experience, the nature of astringency perception is not clear. In this issue of Chemical Senses, Schöbel et al. demonstrate that astringency is a trigeminal sensation in human, and astringents trigger a G protein-coupled pathway in trigeminal ganglion cells in the mouse.
ISSN:0379-864X
1464-3553
DOI:10.1093/chemse/bju021