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High salt recruits aversive taste pathways

In the tongue, distinct classes of taste receptor cells detect the five basic tastes, sweet, sour, bitter, sodium salt, and umami(1,2). Among these qualities, bitter and sour stimuli are innately aversive, whereas sweet and umami are appetitive, and generally attractive to animals. In contrast, salt...

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Autores principales: Oka, Yuki, Butnaru, Matthew, von Buchholtz, Lars, Ryba, Nicholas J. P., Zuker, Charles S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3587117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23407495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11905