DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY OF SALT TASTE SENSATION
DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY OF SALT TASTE SENSATION
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DOI:
10.1016/0166-2236(90)90046-d
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发表时间:
1990-05-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
MISTRETTA, CM
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作者:
HILL, DL;MISTRETTA, CM
A principalprocess in the homeostatic control of sodium levels is salt intake, and the sense of taste has a primary role in regulating ingestion. Because ingestion of sodium chloride (NaCI) is essential for life, the taste system for salt sensation might be expected to exhibit mature functional characteristics from very early development. However, major changes in gustatory nerve responses to NaC I take place during development. In sheep and rat, the peripheral nerve responses to NaCI are of low magnitude during early development. Progressively, the taste system acquires an increasing proportion of fibers that respond maximally to NaCI. The sodium responsiveness emerges in the context of shifting peripheral innervation patterns and the apparent addition of functional receptor membrane channels sensitive to the sodium transport blocker, amiloride. These developmental processes can be altered by early manipulation of sodium in the diet.Ingestion of salt is a crucial first step in the series of regulatory mechanisms that maintain appropriate extracellular concentrations of the electrolyte, sodium. The primary sensory system that operates in detection, recognition and ingestion of NaC1 is taste. Because ingestion of sodium is essential for life, it might be assumed that receptor mechanisms for sodium taste develop and mature early, and remain resistant to environmental manipulation. On the contrary, the sodium taste system matures gradually during development and, at least in early stages, is susceptible to environmental alterations. In this review, we describe systematic, profound changes that take place during mammalian develop-