i need answers on the following questions for experiment:
1. How do tastebuds ware out?
2. Can tastebuds tranplanted?
3. What is the taste of the tastebud?
tastebuds (HELP)
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Re: tastebuds (HELP)
Hi,
Apparently you do become less sensitive to salty tastes with age. I found some websites that suggest that women start losing taste at 40 to 50, and men between 50 and 60, though I do not know how reliable this information is.
http://www.afic.org/Taste%20Matters.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 003050.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 004013.htm
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/ma ... .Ns.r.html
These papers may have useful quantitative references that may be useful to you:
http://hubel.sfasu.edu/courseinfo/SL99/effectage.html
http://crobm.iadrjournals.org/cgi/reprint/3/4/371
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/b ... 3/art00007
A study of marmoset taste buds:
http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/co ... ull/26/1/1
Hope this helps start your research, though it does not answer all your questions. Best of luck on your project!
Barrett Tomlinson
Apparently you do become less sensitive to salty tastes with age. I found some websites that suggest that women start losing taste at 40 to 50, and men between 50 and 60, though I do not know how reliable this information is.
http://www.afic.org/Taste%20Matters.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 003050.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 004013.htm
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/ma ... .Ns.r.html
These papers may have useful quantitative references that may be useful to you:
http://hubel.sfasu.edu/courseinfo/SL99/effectage.html
http://crobm.iadrjournals.org/cgi/reprint/3/4/371
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/b ... 3/art00007
A study of marmoset taste buds:
http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/co ... ull/26/1/1
Hope this helps start your research, though it does not answer all your questions. Best of luck on your project!
Barrett Tomlinson