Success tastes so sweet

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Researchers from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences characterized the role of neurons in the parabrachial nucleus of mice, which is known to relay taste information to the cortex via the gustatory thalamus. SatB2-expressing neurons encoded sweet tastes, and this was especially true for those that projected to the gustatory thalamus. SatB2-expressing neurons selectively transmitted sweet taste-specific appetitive signals.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 7, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news