A pair of pharyngeal gustatory receptor neurons regulates caffeine-dependent ingestion in Drosophila larvae [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2016 The sense of taste is an essential chemosensory modality that enables animals to identify appropriate food sources and control feeding behavior. In particular, the recognition of bitter taste prevents animals from feeding on harmful substances. Feeding
Jaekyun Choi +5 more
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Odors drive feeding through gustatory receptor neurons in Drosophila [PDF]
eLifeOdors are intimately tied to the taste system to aid food selection and determine the sensory experience of food. However, how smell and taste are integrated in the nervous system to drive feeding remains elusive.
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Feeding decision-making by a single neuron via disparate neurotransmitters [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAnimals use gustatory information to decide whether to ingest nutritious substances or avoid toxic ones. Although certain neurons in the gustatory circuits respond to both aversive and appetitive signals, how these neurons resolve inputs with opposing ...
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Molecular characterization of gustatory second-order neurons reveals integrative mechanisms of gustatory and metabolic information [PDF]
eLifeAnimals must balance the urgent need to find food during starvation with the critical necessity to avoid toxic substances to ensure their survival. In Drosophila, specialized Gustatory Receptors (GRs) expressed in Gustatory Receptor Neurons (GRNs) are ...
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Ionotropic Receptors Mediate Drosophila Oviposition Preference through Sour Gustatory Receptor Neurons [PDF]
Current Biology, 2017 Yan Chen, Hubert Amrein
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Taste cells depend on axon proximity to generate presynaptic sites. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe turnover and re-establishment of peripheral taste synapses is vital to maintain connectivity between primary taste receptor cells and the gustatory neurons which relay taste information from the tongue to the brain.
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Gustatory thalamic neurons mediate aversive behaviors [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe parvicellular part of the ventral posteromedial nucleus (VPMpc) of the thalamus, also known as the gustatory thalamus, receives input from the parabrachial nucleus and relays taste sensation to the gustatory (or insular) cortex.
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Chemosensory detection of aversive concentrations of ammonia and basic volatile amines in insects
iScience, 2023 Summary: Basic volatiles like ammonia are found in insect environments, and at high concentrations cause an atypical action potential burst, followed by inhibition in multiple classes of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) in Drosophila melanogaster ...
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Taste sensing and sugar detection mechanisms in Drosophila larval primary taste center
eLife, 2021 Despite the small number of gustatory sense neurons, Drosophila larvae are able to sense a wide range of chemicals. Although evidence for taste multimodality has been provided in single neurons, an overview of gustatory responses at the periphery is ...
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Peripheral, central and behavioral responses to the cuticular pheromone bouquet in Drosophila melanogaster males. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Pheromonal communication is crucial with regard to mate choice in many animals including insects. Drosophila melanogaster flies produce a pheromonal bouquet with many cuticular hydrocarbons some of which diverge between the sexes and differently affect ...
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