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Article: Qualitative and quantitative differences between taste buds of the rat and mouse.
- Article from:
- BMC Neuroscience
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
- Author:
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Abstract
Background: Numerous electrophysiological, ultrastructural, and immunocytochemical studies on rodent taste buds have been carried out on rat taste buds. In recent years, however, the mouse has become the species of choice for molecular and other studies on sensory transduction in taste buds. Do rat and mouse taste buds have the same cell types, sensory transduction markers and synaptic proteins? In the present study we have used antisera directed against PLC[beta]2, [alpha]-gustducin, serotonin (5-HT), PGP 9.5 and synaptobrevin-2 to determine the percentages of taste cells expressing these markers in taste buds in both rodent species. We also determined ...
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