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Science 17 June 1983:
Vol. 220. no. 4603, pp. 1311 - 1312
DOI: 10.1126/science.6857254
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Science, Vol 220, Issue 4603, 1311-1312
Copyright © 1983 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Regenerative impulses in taste cells

S Roper

Taste cells and nongustatory epithelial cells in the isolated lingual mucosa from the mud puppy Necturus maculosus were impaled with microelectrodes. The taste cells, but not surrounding epithelial cells, were electrically excitable when directly stimulated with current passed through the recording electrode. Action potentials produced by taste cells had both a sodium and a calcium component.


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