Taste receptors monitor the quality of all the food ingested. They
are intimately involved in both food acceptance and rejection. The
sensation of taste is also important in the regulation of many
specific chemicals necessary for maintenance of the body. For
example, disturbance of the adrenal glands results in a change in
the intake of salt which is necessary for regulation of the sodium
balance. Curt Richter's early studies on specific hungers and
preference thresholds initiated a large number of studies in this
field. The relationship between taste and food intake is now well
recognized by physiologists, psychologists and nutritionists. Our
current concepts of the neural coding of taste quality and
intensity are largely based upon the classical paper by PFAFFMANN
in 1941. Many subsequent single nerve fiber studies have added to
our understanding. In recent years Zotterman and Diamant have
successfully recorded from the human taste nerves as they pass
through the middle ear. This allowed them to study the
relationships between the response of taste receptors and the
resultant taste sensation. No similar feat has yet been
accomplished with the visual and auditory systems.
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