1. Anatomy of the taste system
Patricia PASSILLY-DEGRACE, Dany GAILLARD, Philippe BESNARD: Nutrition Physiology Laboratory, UMR INSERM U 866, École nationale de biologie appliquée à la nutrition et à l'alimentation (ENSBANA), University of Burgundy (Dijon).
Taste perception is ensured by specialized cellular structures: taste buds. These are found in the taste buds, whose density is particularly high in the lingual epithelium. Taste buds also exist, but in a diffuse fashion, in other tissues including the soft palate, pharynx, larynx and upper esophagus. At the lingual level, there are three types of taste buds (see figure 1 ). The most numerous are the fungiform papillae, located in the anterior 2/3...
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