Gustation Flashcards
(44 cards)
4 sensory systems which contribute flavor
- Gustation
- Olfactation
- Chemesthesis
- Mechanosensation
4 cephalic responses toward food
- Saliva release
- Digestive enzyme release
- Insulin release
- Initiation of peristalsis
What is taste?
Gustation (the 5 or 6 sensations)
What is flavor?
Adds to taste
Flavors
- Smell
- Temperature
- Pungency (pepper or wasabi)
- Freshness (menthol or mint)
- Texture
6 different tastes
- Sweet
- Umami
- Bitter
- Sour
- Salty
- Fatty
Chemesthesis: irritants are perceived as?
- Hot/spicy
- Cool/fresh
- Pricking
- Burning
- Stinging
3 nn. in oral cavity
- CN VII (facial - chorda tympani)
- CN IX (glossopharyngeal)
- CN X (vagus)
Taste buds on tip of tongue
CN VII (facial n. - chorda tympani)
Taste buds in back of tongue
CN IX (glossopharyngeal)
Taste buds of epiglottis
CN X (vagus)
Role of CN V (trigeminal) in oral and nasal cavity
Somato-sensory n. fibers in oronasal cavity
1 receptor cell expresses receptors for __ taste category
1 taste category
____ cells per taste bud
20-100
4 ways to evaluate food
- Caloric content
- Poison
- Rotten/unripe
- Electrolyte balance
Ways to taste caloric content
- Carbohydrate (sweet)
- Proteins (AAs)
- Fat (FA)
Poison tastes?
Bitter
Unripe/rotten foods taste?
Sour (pH balance)
Electrolyte balance tastes?
Salty
Taste buds contain what 4 types of cells?
- Glial cells
- Receptor cells
- Presynaptic cells
- Basal cels
Role of glial cells
Ensheath type II (receptor) cells and express ecto-ATPase
Role of ecto-ATPase
Limits extracellular ATP
Receptor cells
- Subtypes for sweet, umami, bitter and fatty
- Release ATP via channels in responses to ligand
- Does not form synapses with gustatory afferents
Presynaptic cells
- Subtypes for salty and acid
- Release serotonin and norep
- Do form synapses with gustatory afferents