ABSTRACT
This book focuses on the initial biochemical and biophysical aspects of taste and olfaction. It is intended for a wide audience, both those already familiar with the chemical senses and those biochemists and neuro-biologists interested in gaining an appreciation of this rapidly expanding discipline.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|102 pages
Biochemical Events in Taste Reception and Transduction
chapter 1|22 pages
Stimulus-Evoked Transepithelial Lingual Currents and the Gustatory Neural Response
Implications for Transduction and Adaptation
chapter 2|19 pages
Receptor Site Specificity in Taste
Characterization of Amino Acid Taste Receptors from the Cutaneous Taste System of Ictalurus punctatus
part II|91 pages
Ionic Mechanisms of Taste Cell Activation
chapter 8|12 pages
Chemoreception of Salt Taste
The Blockage of Stationary Sodium Currents by Amiloride in Isolated Receptor Cells and Excised Membrane Patches
part III|103 pages
Biochemical Events in Olfactory Reception and Transduction
chapter 11|16 pages
Odorant-Binding Protein
Sequence Analysis and Localization Suggest an Odorant Transport Function
chapter 12|20 pages
Biochemistry of Purinergic Olfaction
The Importance of Nucleotide Dephosphorylation
part IVA|103 pages
Ionic Mechanisms of Olfactory Transduction
chapter 17|15 pages
Excitation by Odorants of Olfactory Receptor Cells
Molecular Interactions at the Ciliary Membrane
chapter 19|15 pages
Activation of Lobster Olfactory Receptor Cells by Complex Stimuli
Evidence for Multiple Conductance Pathways
part IVB|89 pages
Ionic Mechanisms of Olfactory Transduction
part V|11 pages
Conclusion
