Prenatal dietary sodium restriction produces profound developmental effects on rat functional taste responses and formation of neural circuits in the brainstem. Converging evidence indicates that the underlying mechanisms for these effects are related to a compromised nutritional state and not to direct stimulus-receptor interactions. We explored whether early malnourishment produces similar fu...

There is good evidence indicating that ion-transport pathways in the apical regions of lingual epithelial cells, including taste bud cells, may play a role in salt taste reception. In this article, we present evidence that, in the case of the dog, there also exists a sugar-activated ion-transport pathway that is linked to sugar taste transduction. Evidence was drawn from two parallel lines of e...

OAKLEY, B. Reformation of taste buds by crossed sensory nervps in the rat’s tongue. Acta physiol. scand. 1970. 79. 88-94. Rat taste buds degenerate and disappear when their nerve supply is cut. Regeneration of the taste nerve fibres causes certain epithelial cells to differentiate into slender receptor cells comprising the taste bud. In this study by cross-union the glossopharyngeal (IXth) nerv...

In the present study, mechanical behavior of tricuspid valve (TV) chordae tendineae tissue is investigated experimentally and theoretically. A series uniaxial testing experiments TV conducted its viscoelastic model developed by taking into account initial condition displacement tissue. Our experimental result shows typical J-shaped force-displacement curve corresponding established via a nonlin...

The neuropeptide leptin has been shown to selectively modulate rat chorda tympani (CT) responses to sweet tastants. To explore whether other neuropeptides can modulate such responses, rat whole nerve CT responses to NaCl, HCl, quinine HCl, and sucrose were measured while administering cholecystokinin-8 (CCK-8), substance P(4-11) (SP(4-11)), or calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). To avoid po...

The papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) is a rare and benign primary cardiac tumor, and the most frequently found tumor occurring in the cardiac valves. With the introduction of echocardiography, the diagnosis of these tumors in living patients has been reported sporadically. The PFEs have been found most often on valve leaflets, chordae tendineae, and both ventricles. We describe an interesting case...