Kombucha is a beverage made from sugared tea transformed by yeasts and acetic acid
bacteria. Being originally homemade, it has become an industrially produced soft drink …

This review addresses a fundamental neuroscientific question in food perception: how
multimodal features of food are integrated. Much research and conceptualization has …

This paper briefly reviews research that describes the sensation, generation and consumer
acceptance of beef flavor. Humans sense the five basic tastes in their taste buds, and …

The chemosensory capacity of the somatosensory system relies on the appropriate
expression of chemoreceptors, which detect chemical stimuli and transduce sensory …

Although numerous studies have convincingly demonstrated that sleep plays a critical role
in motor sequence learning (MSL) consolidation, the specific contribution of the different …

Objectives: The review outlines characteristics of the intranasal trigeminal chemosensory
system. In addition, it provides selective comparisons of the trigeminal and olfactory systems …

For a long time, studies devoted to intranasal chemoreception have separately considered
the different systems which coexist in the human nasal cavity, especially the olfactory and …

TRP channels are expressed in taste buds, nerve fibers, and keratinocytes in the oronasal
cavity. These channels play integral roles in transducing chemical stimuli, giving rise to …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Anosmias with chromosomal disorders has been well
investigated. However, isolated anosmia (IA) has received less attention, although it occurs …

The olfactory and the trigeminal systems have a close relationship. Most odorants also
stimulate the trigeminal nerve. Further, subjects with no sense of smell exhibit a decreased …