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Taste is one of the most common and fundamental of the senses of animals. It is the direct detection of chemical composition, usually through contact with chemoreceptor cells. Taste is very similar to olfaction, the sense of smell, in which the chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium is detected by chemoreceptors. It helps determine flavor.
Role of the nervous system
In humans, the sense of taste is transduced by taste buds and is conveyed via three of the twelve cranial nerves. The facial nerve carries taste sensations from the anterior two thirds of the tongue (excluding the circumvallate papillae, see lingual papilla) and soft palate, the glossopharyngeal nerve carries taste sensations from the posterior one third of the tongue (including the circumvallate papillae) while a branch of the vagus nerve carries some taste sensations from the back of the oral cavity (i.e. pharynx and epiglottis). Information from these cranial nerves is processed by the gustatory system.
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Smell Disorders Clinic, Texas - Assessment and treatment of taste and smell disorders.
Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) - Association established to advance the understanding of chemosensory mechanisms by bringing to one forum the variety of different scientific disciplines currently being used to approach the chemical senses
Chemosensory Perception Lab at UCSD- chemical senses research - The Chemosensory Perception Lab in the Department of Surgery at University of California, San Diego performs research on how people perceive chemicals and how chemicals exert short-term effects on people.
Duke University - Taste and Smell Lab - Located in the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina USA. Research spans the range from clinical to molecular investigations of the senses of taste and smell.
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Human olfactory receptor repertoire - Olfactory receptor sequences that represent essentially the complete repertoire of functional human odorant receptors.
Monell Chemical Senses Center - A scientific institute for multidisciplinary research on taste, smell and chemosensory irritation.
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Nasal Dysfunction Clinic - Located at the University of California, San Diego.
NIDCD Health Information on Smell and Taste Disorders - A basic introduction to smell and taste disorders.
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Olfaction - Current understanding of the physiological basis for olfaction (sense of smell) and the possible molecular interactions that specify odorant signaling.
Olfaction: From Genome Mining to Molecular Recognition Statistics - Lecture on olfaction by Doron Lancet at UCSB
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Olfactory Receptors - The Human Olfactory Receptor Data Exploratorium; information on the OR proteins, their structure, function and evolution. A set of analysis tools is provided.
Representations of Olfactory Information in the Brain - Research article on olfaction (sense of smell).
Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center (RMTSC). - The Department of Otolaryngology, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
SenseLab - Database devoted to olfactory receptors.
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Smell and Taste Disorders - A discussion as to how smell and taste works, the four basic tastes, what causes the disorders, diagnosing and a discussion on whether they can be treated.
Smell and Taste Disorders - The Merck Manual takes an extensive look at discussion on diagnosis and treatment.
Smell and Taste Disorders - Provides an overview about how smell and taste work, the main causes of disorders of these senses, and the diagnoses and treatments of them.
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Smell Research by Tim Jacob - A Professor at Cardiff University, Wales, this site lists information on his research and teaching interests. It includes information on brain activity related to smell, which may be of interest to anosmics.
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Taste and Smell Loss: Risk for Disease? - A reduced, distorted, or lost sense of taste or smell represent serious risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other illnesses that require adherence to specific dietary regimens.
The ChemoReception Web - Sensory, biological, and chemical aspects of how tastes, smells, and pheromones are received and perceived. Includes a comprehensive index of scientific abstracts.
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The Sense of Scents, the Sense of Self - Smell and its interaction with the brain, and in particular the relationship between smell and memory.
The Sense of Taste - Answers questions about the sense of taste.
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The Smell and Taste Disorders Clinic, Syracuse - Health Science Center of the State University of New York in Syracuse. Explanation of smell and taste disorders with treatment options.
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The Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, Ltd. - Focused on working to better the understanding of and proactively utilize the body's senses. (Chicago, IL)
The Taste and Smell Clinic - Located in Washington, D.C. Information about the clinic, diagnosis, treatment, FAQs, research and contact details.
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UConn Taste and Smell Center - Our Taste and Smell Clinic uses a multidisciplinary approach to determine the etiology of a patient's taste and smell disorder. University of Connecticut Health Center.
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