Article: SCIENTISTS DISCOVER PROTEIN RECEPTOR FOR CARBONATION TASTE

Article: What's cookin': science is in the kitchen, and the results are ...
Science News;  March 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... water to stop the gelling, transferred to a canister, then charged with carbon dioxide. A few hours later, the sphere is slightly carbonated, built to flood the taste buds in a fizzing burst of flavor. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Today, it would ...

Article: Evidence that taste buds are not present on the ...
Ear, Nose and Throat Journal;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... investigate whether taste buds are present on ... via a modified carbon dioxide laser-assisted ... existence of taste buds on the human ... investigate whether taste buds are present on ... via a modified carbon dioxide (C[O.sub ...

Article: When yeast rises to the occasion, our taste buds ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  January 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... begins when yeast combines with warm water and a food supply, such as sugar. As the yeast grow and divide, they release carbon dioxide gas and alcohol. The CO2 bubbles become trapped in the gluten strands of the batter and lift the dough, much like air ...

Article: Report finds part of tongue that interacts with carbon ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  October 16, 2009 ;     478 words ... ... out that the taste buds that let us sense ... interacts with carbon dioxide, said researchers ... little buzz of carbon dioxide gas and recorded ... have no sour taste buds, the brain never ... merely sour? Carbon dioxide also stimulates ...

Article: Taste buds vary widely in numbers, regardless of ...
PR Newswire;  January 14, 1988 ;     700+ words ...TASTE BUDS VARY WIDELY IN NUMBERS, REGARDLESS OF ... a surprise discovery: the number of taste buds on the human tongue varies dramatically ... anatomy, found a 100-fold range in taste buds when examining tongues from human cadavers ...

Article: Qualitative and quantitative differences between taste ...
BMC Neuroscience;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... and immunocytochemical studies on rodent taste buds have been carried out on rat taste buds. In recent years, however, the mouse has ... and other studies on sensory transduction in taste buds. Do rat and mouse taste buds have the same ...

Article: Functional significance of the co-localization of taste ...
The Biological Bulletin;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Taste cells present in multicellular taste buds are the major functional units in the ... Reutter and Witt, 1993). In fishes, taste buds occur not only within the oral and pharyngeal ... 1990; and others). Excitation of taste buds in the oropharyngeal cavity of two species ...