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Opening a "Wide" Window onto Taste Signal Transmission
1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
Neuron
|May 4, 2018
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.