Saliva has many essential functions. As the first digestive fluid in the alimentary canal, saliva
is secreted in response to food, assisting intake and initiating the digestion of starch and …

Saliva is the principal fluid component of the external environment of the taste receptor cells
and, as such, could play a role in taste sensitivity. Its main role includes transport of taste …

Thaumatin, an intensely sweet tasting protein, was bound to colloidal gold and applied to
the taste bud-bearing foliate papillae of Rhesus monkeys. Examination of thin sections of …

Many human psychophysical and animal behavioral and electrophysiological studies have
been employed and provided evidence that saliva can widely affect the oral sense including …

The chemical composition of the luminal content is now accepted to have a profound
influence on the performance of chemosensory receptors. Gustatory and intestinal …

Thaumatin is a protein that tastes intensely sweet only to Old World monkeys and to higher
primates, including man. Here we used pre‐embedding ultrastructural methods to study the …

Old world chameleons (Chamaeleontidae) use a highly muscular protrusible tongue to
capture prey from great distances. Rapid tongue projection in chameleons is caused by the …

Thaumatin, an intensely sweet tasting protein, was bound to colloidal gold and applied to
the taste bud-bearing foliate papillae of Rhesus monkeys. Examination of thin sections of …