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Electrical properties and gustatory responses of various taste disk cells of frog fungiform papillae
- Source :
- Chemical Senses. 33(4):371-378
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Abstract
- We compared the electrical properties and gustatory response profiles of types Ia cell (mucus cell), Ib cell (wing cell), and II/III cell (receptor cell) in the taste disks of the frog fungiform papillae. The large depolarizing responses of all types of cell induced by 1 M NaCl were accompanied by a large decrease in the membrane resistance and had the same reversal potential of approximately +5 mV. The large depolarizing responses of all cell types for 1 mM acetic acid were accompanied by a small decrease in the membrane resistance. The small depolarizing responses of all cell types for 10 mM quinine--HCl (Q-HCl) were accompanied by an increase in the membrane resistance, but those for 1 M sucrose were accompanied by a decrease in the membrane resistance. The reversal potential of sucrose responses in all cell types were approximately +12 mV. Taken together, depolarizing responses of Ia, Ib, and II/III cells for each taste stimulus are likely to be generated by the same mechanisms. Gustatory depolarizing response profiles indicated that 1) each of Ia, Ib, and II/III cells responded 100% to 1 M NaCl and 1 mM acetic acid with depolarizing responses, 2) approximately 50% of each cell type responded to 10 mM Q-HCl with depolarizations, and 3) each approximately 40% of Ia and Ib cells and approximately 90% of II/III cells responded to 1 M sucrose with depolarizations. These results suggest that the receptor molecules for NaCl, acid, and Q-HCl stimuli are equivalently distributed on all cell types, but the receptor molecules for sugar stimuli are richer on II/III cells than on Ia and Ib cells. Type III cells having afferent synapses may play a main role in gustatory transduction and transmission.<br />Chemical Senses, 33(4), pp.371-378; 2008
- Subjects :
- fungiform papilla
medicine.medical_specialty
Cell type
Taste
Physiology
Cell
gustatory transduction
Biology
Membrane Potentials
Behavioral Neuroscience
Tongue
Physiology (medical)
Internal medicine
medicine
Animals
Lingual papilla
Receptor
Reversal potential
Rana catesbeiana
taste disk cell
Depolarization
Taste Buds
Electric Stimulation
Sensory Systems
basic taste stimuli
taste response profile
medicine.anatomical_structure
Endocrinology
Biophysics
GRENOUILLE
Microelectrodes
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0379864X
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chemical Senses
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f5cc8e8c55d9e1c6357460bf9f1bf76a