The Importance of Taste on Dietary Choice: Modulation of Taste Sensitivity
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 February 2024) | Viewed by 1825
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bitter; taste; umami; kokumi
Interests: kokumi; umami; salty; sour
Interests: demonstration of previously underappreciated sources of progenitors for taste buds; delineation of the molecular regulation of taste organogenesis; taste bud cell differentiation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Appetitive sweet, umami and salty tastes guide us to select foods which are high in energy and that maintain ionic balance. However, sweet and salty tastes are also associated with increased ingestion of sugar and salt, a contributing factor in the increased prevalence of taste-related chronic diseases. Significant progress has been made in the identification of receptors and downstream signaling effectors involved in the transduction of bitter, sweet, umami, salty and sour tastes. While the detection of individual primary taste qualities is segregated in different taste cell types, psychophysical, neural and cellular studies indicate that some taste stimuli can interact with multiple taste receptors. Such taste stimuli not only elicit their own stimuli-specific taste but also often result in either enhancement or suppression of other taste responses. Therefore, such stimuli can be potentially used as novel strategies to enhance the sweet taste sensitivity to potentially reduce sugar intake or the aversiveness of bitter tastes to increase acceptance of nutritious foods that taste bitter. In this Special Issue, we will summarize recent advances in the modulation of taste sensitivity, identification of taste modulators, their underlying mechanism of action in psychophysical, neural and cellular models and their potential role in taste recognition.
Dr. Mee-Ra Rhyu
Dr. Vijay Lyall
Dr. Hongxiang Liu
Dr. Archana Kumari
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- taste modulators
- taste receptor cells
- taste nerve
- human sensory
- PAM (positive allosteric modulator)
- NAM (negative allosteric modulator)
