Postnatal development of the vallate papilla and taste buds in rats
dc.contributor.author | Hosley, Mark A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Oakley, Bruce | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-04-06T18:01:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-04-06T18:01:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1987-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Hosley, Mark A.; Oakley, Bruce (1987)."Postnatal development of the vallate papilla and taste buds in rats." The Anatomical Record 218(2): 216-222. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/49852> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-276X | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1097-0185 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/49852 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=3619089&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The postnatal maturation of the vallate papilla and its taste buds was quantitatively investigated in rats by light microscopy. Specifically, we measured postnatal increases in the size of mature vallate taste buds and the vallate papilla, increases in the thickness of the gustatory epidermis, and increases in the number of mature taste buds and taste cells per bud. Mature taste buds, defined as those having a taste pore, are rare at birth but proliferate rapidly during the first postnatal month until an average of 610 mature taste buds has accumulated by 90 days. Throughout this postnatal period, mature taste buds adjust to the developmental thickening of the epidermis by continuously increasing in length. Mature taste buds also increase in width, in part due to a threefold increase from 10 and 45 days in the number of taste cells per bud. From 10 to 21 days there is an average daily net increase of three cells per mature taste bud. The maturational increase in taste buds and cells may contribute to the functional changes in taste nerve responses known to occur over the course of several generations of taste receptor cells. The dimensions of the vallate papilla and the surface area of the gustatory epithelium increase logarithmically with age. Although mature taste buds continue to increase in number until 90 days, both taste bud density (178/mm 2 ) and the number of cells per mature taste bud (70–75 cells) reach ceilings by 45 days. Thus, density-dependent factors appear to control vallate taste bud maturation. The immaturity of lingual taste buds in newborn rats supports the view that odor, rather than taste, is the chemosensory signal that guides suckling in altricial rodents. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cell & Developmental Biology | en_US |
dc.title | Postnatal development of the vallate papilla and taste buds in rats | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 3619089 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/49852/1/1092180217_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.1092180217 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | The Anatomical Record | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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