Article
High salt recruits aversive taste pathways.
Nature - 28 Feb 2013
Oka Yuki, Butnaru Matthew, von Buchholtz Lars, Ryba Nicholas J P, Zuker Charles S
Abstract excerpt
In the tongue, distinct classes of taste receptor cells detect the five basic tastes; sweet, sour, bitter, sodium salt and umami. Among these qualities, bitter and sour stimuli are innately aversive, whereas sweet and umami are appetitive and generally attractive to animals. By contrast, salty taste is unique in that increasing salt concentration fundamentally transforms an innately appetitive stimulus into a...
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