The emerging picture of taste coding at the periphery is one of elegant simplicity. Contrary to
what was generally believed, it is now clear that distinct cell types expressing unique …

The sense of taste is a specialized chemosensory system dedicated to the evaluation of food
and drink. Despite the fact that vertebrates and insects have independently evolved distinct …

Mammals can taste a wide repertoire of chemosensory stimuli. Two unrelated families of
receptors (T1Rs and T2Rs) mediate responses to sweet, amino acids, and bitter …

The vomeronasal organ (VNO) mediates detection of pheromones related to social and
reproductive behavior in most terrestrial vertebrates. We have identified a new multigene …

The sense of taste provides animals with valuable information about the quality and
nutritional value of food. Previously, we identified a large family of mammalian taste …

Bitter taste perception provides animals with critical protection against ingestion of
poisonous compounds. In the accompanying paper, we report the characterization of a large …

Sweet and umami (the taste of monosodium glutamate) are the main attractive taste
modalities in humans. T1Rs are candidate mammalian taste receptors that combine to …

Mammals taste many compounds yet use a sensory palette consisting of only five basic taste
modalities: sweet, bitter, sour, salty and umami (the taste of monosodium glutamate) …

In mammals, taste perception is a major mode of sensory input. We have identified a novel
family of 40–80 human and rodent G protein–coupled receptors expressed in subsets of …

Salt taste in mammals can trigger two divergent behavioural responses. In general,
concentrated saline solutions elicit robust behavioural aversion, whereas low concentrations …