Taste Disturbance

Taste disturbance after stapes surgery--clinical and experimental study.

CONCLUSION Most of the clinical cases experienced taste disturbance after stapes surgery, and in a few cases this disturbance persisted for a long time. The animal experiment suggested the role of geniculate ganglion (GG) cells in nerve generation. OBJECTIVES To clinically examine taste disorder and its recovery after stapes surgery and experimentally demonstrate a role of GG. PATIENTS AND ...

Sleep Disturbance in Travelers

A Matter of Taste : Understanding Taste

Presenter Disclosures for Betsy Reynolds, RDH, MS Acts as a Key Opinion Leader for Philips/Discus  In that capacity, she receives educational grant funding for presentation development  She is not an employee of either company and has no vested interest in sales of any product manufactured or distributed by Philips/Discus Ms. Reynolds has received financial reimbursement from Parkell for auth...

Taste isn't just for taste buds anymore

Taste is a discriminative sense involving specialized receptor cells of the oral cavity (taste buds) and at least two distinct families of G protein-coupled receptor molecules that detect nutritionally important substances or potential toxins. Yet the receptor mechanisms that drive taste also are utilized by numerous systems throughout the body. How and why these so-called taste receptors are u...

Taste Quality Decoding Parallels Taste Sensations

In most species, the sense of taste is key in the distinction of potentially nutritious and harmful food constituents and thereby in the acceptance (or rejection) of food. Taste quality is encoded by specialized receptors on the tongue, which detect chemicals corresponding to each of the basic tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savory [1]), before taste quality information is transmitted v...