S&P Exam 3 Taste

Capsaicin numbs pain receptors for long periods of time - saw in video used as taffy for mouth pain and cream for foot pain

filiform, fungiform, foliate, and circumvallete

all over tongue, no taste buds

mushrooms on tip and sides - have a pore where tastebuds are

folds along side of tongue - has taste buds

back of tongue - mounds surrounded by trenches - has taste buds

non taster has less than 9 taste buds in a small area, tasters have 11-34, and super tasters ahve 35

Chorda tympani nerve

glossopharyngeal

Nucleus of solitary tract

Thalamus

primary gustatory cortex - Anterior Insula / Frontal Opercolumn

Orbitofrontal Cortex

Salty, Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Umami, and Metallic (?)

Synsepalum Dulcificum (berry from west africa that binds to sweet tastebuds so that sour food activates both sour and sweet) and Gymnema Sylvestre (herb from India that binds to sweet receptors and blocks sweetness)