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Sour Ageusia in Two Individuals Implicates Ion Channels of the ASIC and PKD Families in Human Sour Taste Perception at the Anterior Tongue

BACKGROUND: The perception of sour taste in humans is incompletely understood at the receptor cell level. We report here on two patients with an acquired sour ageusia. Each patient was unresponsive to sour stimuli, but both showed normal responses to bitter, sweet, and salty stimuli. METHODS AND FIN...

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Autores principales: Huque, Taufiqul, Cowart, Beverly J., Dankulich-Nagrudny, Luba, Pribitkin, Edmund A., Bayley, Douglas L., Spielman, Andrew I., Feldman, Roy S., Mackler, Scott A., Brand, Joseph G.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2754526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19812697
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007347