Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Mammalian Taste Perception

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In the latest Current Biology, Paul Breslin from Monell Chemical Senses Center and Alan Spector from the Department of Psychology, Florida State University, have a nice review of human taste perception and its biology. The review covers the latest understanding of physiology involved (neurology, anatomy, biochemistry, etc) in how the sweet, bitter, umami , and everything in between, is processed by the body to give us these terrific subjective feelings.

Read: Mammalian taste perception Current Biology, Vol 18, R148-R155, 26 February 2008

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