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Chapter 8: The Chemical Senses Flashcards

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What do animals depend on chemical senses to do?

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Identify nourishment, poison, or potential mate

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What are the five types of basic tastes?

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Saltiness, sourness, sweetness, bitterness, and umami

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What chemicals taste sour?

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Acids

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What chemicals taste salty?

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Salts

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What chemicals taste sweet?

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Sugars like fructose, sucrose, and artifical sweetners

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What chemicals taste bitter?

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Ions like K and Mg, quinine, and caffeine

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What do poisonous substances often taste like?

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Bitter

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When you lick a lollipop, which receptors will be activated?

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Sweet

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What other sensory modalities contribute to taste?

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Temperature, texture, and pain (capsaicin)

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What do foliate papillae appear as?

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Ridges

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What do vallate papillae appear as?

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Pimples

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What do fungiform papillae appear as?

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Mushrooms

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What is on the paillae that ranges from 1-hundreds?

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Taste buds

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What is on each taste bud that ranges from 50-150?

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Taste receptor cells

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Threshold Concentration

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-Just enough exposure of single papilla to selectively detect one taste
-Multiple tastes are detected at higher concentration

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What is the taste pore?

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Opening to expose taste cell to mouth contents

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Where is there connectivity in taste cells?

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-Synpase w/ gustatory afferent axons at the basal end of the taste bud

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What is the lifespan of a taste cell?

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-2 weeks
-Is dependant on connection w/ sensory nerve

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Receptor Potential

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-Voltage shift (depolarization)-may fire action-potentials
-Voltage-gated Na and voltage-gated Ca channels open
-Transmitter released

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What is released when sour and salty?

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Serotonin

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What is released from sweet, bitter, umami?

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ATP

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Transduction

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Process by which an environmental stimulus causes an electrical response in a sensory receptor

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What may salt/sour taste stimuli do in transduction?

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-Pass directly through ion channels

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What may sour taste stimuli do in transduction?

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Binds to and block ion channels

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What may bitter/sweet/umami taste stimuli do in transduction?
Bind to G-protein-coupled receptors and activate second messenger to open ion channels
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Special Na-selective Channel
-Normally open -Increased extracellular Na will cause more Na inward current —>Depolarization is called receptor potential
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[Low] salt tastes good, what happens?
Special Na-selective channel
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[High] salt tastes bad, what activates?
Activate bitter and sour taste cells —>repellant
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What do protons do?
Causative agents of acidity and sourness
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H can bind and block certain K channels which leands to what?
Depolarization
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H may activate transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, which leads to what?
Cation current, which causes depolarization
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What are the G-protein-coupled taste receptors in bitter, sweet, and umami?
T1R and T2R
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How does the second messengers for bitter, sweet, and umami work?
1. Open Na Channel leads to depolarization 2. Intracelluler Ca opens, ATP-permeable channel opens, ATP releases, activates postsynpatic purinergic receptors
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How many types of T2R receptors are there?
25
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Can you tell the difference between 2 bitter tastes?
No
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What sweet receptors are required?
T1R2 and T1R3
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What do the umami receptors do?
Detect amino acids -T1R1 and T1R3
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What cranial nerves are involved in central taste pathways?
-VII Facial: anterior 2/3 of tongue, palate -IX glossopharyngeal: posterior 1/3 tongue -X vagus: throat
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Where do cranial nerves synapse?
On gustatory nucelus w/in solitary nucleus in medulla
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Where do gustaory nucleus axons synapse?
On ventral posterior medial (VPM) nucleus in thalamus
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Where do VPM taste axons synapse?
Primary gustatory cortex (mostly ipsilateral to cranial nerves;parietal lobe)
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Medulla Function
Swallowing, salivation, gagging, vomitting, digestion, respiration
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Hypothalamus
Motivation for eating, control of eating based learned cues
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Amygdala
Plasure in eating, control of eating based on learned cues
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Ageusia
Loss of taste perception -lesions in VPM/gustatory cortex
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What is the result of localized lesions in the hypothalamus/amygdala?
Chronically overeat/ignore food, alter food preferences
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Labeled line hypothesis
Individual taste receptor cells for each stimuli
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Population coding
-Large #s of broadly tuned neurons -Many taste receptor cells may all synpase w/ the same neuron which results in multiple tastes -Overall pattern leads to taste -Contribution of smell, temp., and texture of foods
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How many smells do we experience?
20,000 smells, but only 20% are pleasant
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Pheromones
-Reproductive behavior -Territorial boundaries -Identification of individuals -Signal aggression/submission
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What is the role of human pheremones?
-Unclear -Synchronization of menstrual cycles -Mother-baby relationship
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Olfactory Epithelium
-Small, thin sheet of cells high in nasal cavity 1. Olfactory receptor cells-sites of transduction; neurons; last 4-8 weeks 2. Supporting cells-like glia; produce mucus 3. Basal cells-divide to produce new receptor cells
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Mucus coating is replaced every 10 mintues
-Water, mucupolysaccharides, proteins (antibodies, enzymes, odorant binding proteins), salts -Odorants from sniffing dissolve in the mucus layer before contracting olfactory receptor cells -Antibodies protect the brain from viruses and bacteria
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Do humans have weak smellers compared to many animals?
Yes
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What do odorants bind to?
Olfactory receptor cilia on dendrite and activate transduction process
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What do olfactory axons in small clusters do?
-Penetrate cribiform plate-thin sheet of bone -Project to olfactory bulb
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Anosmia
Inability to smell
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Explain transduction mechanisms of vertebrate olfactory receptor cells
-Odorants bind to ordorant receptor proteins -Activate Golf -Increase cAMP -Open cAMO-gated cation channel -Influx of Na and Ca -Open Ca -activated Cl channel -Cl flows our of the cell -Depolarization leads to receptor potential
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What ways does termination work?
-Diffusion -Scavenger enzymes in mucus -Other pathways from cAMP -Adaptation
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Adaptation
Decreased response of receptor to the smell w/in 1 minute
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What did Linda Buck and Richard Axel do?
In 1991, discovered more than 1000 odorants receptors in rodents’ -Nobel prize in 2004
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How many receptor types does each receptor cell encode for?
1
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Does each odorant activates only 1 type of receptor?
No, it activates many
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What do olfactory receptor axons project to?
Olfactory bulbs
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How large are glomeruli?
50-200 um in diameter
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25,000 axons converge on dendrites of 100 what?
Second-order olfactory neurons
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What is the orderly map of receptor genes expressed in olfactory epithelium?
Map of odor information
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What are the excitatory and inhibitory connections in the mapping of olfactory receptors neurons?
-Glomeruli -Bulbs
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Olfactory population coding
-Combination of neurons firing distinguishes odor -Humans can discriminate 1 trillion odors
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Olfactory maps (sensory maps)
-Orderly arrangement of neurons that correlates w/ certain features of the environment -“Maps” show neurons activated by specific odors
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What is temporal coding in the olfactory system?
-Temporal patterns of spiking in olfactory neurons may encode quality of odors -Temporal patterns are also clear in spoation odor maps
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What is anosmia likely arising from in Covid-19?
Loss of support cell function instead of the neurons themselves
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Is sense of smell likely to return in Covid-19 patients?
Yes, but soem experience long-term loss and are called long haulers

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