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  • Title: Cation dependence of frog gustatory neural responses to acid stimuli.
    Author: Okada Y, Miyamoto T, Sato T.
    Journal: Comp Biochem Physiol A Comp Physiol; 1987; 88(3):487-90. PubMed ID: 2892622.
    Abstract:
    1. To understand the mechanism underlying the gustatory response for acid stimuli, the characteristics of glossopharyngeal neural responses elicited by 1 mM hydrochloric acid (HCl) in bullfrogs were examined by changing the ionic composition of adapting solutions flowed on the tongue surface. 2. The amplitude of the gustatory neural response for HCl was increased with an increase of Ca2+ concentration in the adapting solution. 3. The action of Ca2+ in the adapting solution could be replaced by Ba2+ and Sr2+, and was inhibited by Co2+, suggesting that the Ca2+ channel in the receptor membrane of taste cells is related to a gustatory neural response to acid.
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