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Ways of being: familiarity with playwrights as expression of taste Ghent University
Predictors and correlates of taste preferences in European children: the IDEFICS study Ghent University
Human intestinal bitter taste receptors regulate innate immune responses and metabolic regulators in obesity KU Leuven
Bitter taste receptors (taste 2 receptors, TAS2Rs) serve as warning sensors in the lingual system against the ingestion of potentially poisonous food. Here, we investigated the functional role of TAS2Rs in the human gut and focused on their potential to trigger an additional host defense pathway in the intestine. Human jejunal crypts, especially those from individuals with obesity, responded to bitter agonists by inducing the release of ...
Impaired Taste Perception in Lichen Planus Patients with Tongue Involvement KU Leuven
PURPOSE: To analyse the taste function in a pool of untreated patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) with tongue lesions (n = 35) and without tongue lesions (n = 36) and to compare it to healthy subjects (n = 36). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Firstly, the subjective overall taste ability and impairment of the sensations of 'sweet', 'sour', 'salty' and 'bitter' were recorded in all three groups. Secondly, taste function was tested in all included ...
T.A.S.T.E. - Testing Auditory Solutions towards the improvement of the Tasting Experience KU Leuven
There is a common agreement among researchers about the involvement of multiple senses when flavors are being experienced. In particular, there is a growing consensus that the sound and/or noise in those places where we eat and drink can somehow affect our tasting experience. The research summarized here assesses the influence of sound on flavor judgment. We hypothesize that it is possible to design soundscapes that can have a significant ...
T.A.S.T.E. - Testing Auditory Solutions towards the improvement of the Tasting Experience. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
There is a common agreement among researchers about the involvement of multiple senses when flavours are being experienced. In particular, there is a growing consensus that the sound and/or noise in those places where we eat and drink can somehow affect our tasting experience.
The research summarised here assesses the influence of sound on flavour judgment. We hypothesise that it is possible to design soundscapes that can have a ...
The research summarised here assesses the influence of sound on flavour judgment. We hypothesise that it is possible to design soundscapes that can have a ...
Altered lipid and salt taste responsivity in ghrelin and GOAT null mice University of Antwerp
Taste perception plays an important role in regulating food preference, eating behavior and energy homeostasis. Taste perception is modulated by a variety of factors, including gastric hormones such as ghrelin. Ghrelin can regulate growth hormone release, food intake, adiposity, and energy metabolism. Octanoylation of ghrelin by ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT) is a specific post-translational modification which is essential for many biological ...
Crossmodal correspondences and interactions between texture and taste perception KU Leuven
In recent years, awareness of the influence of different modalities on taste perception has grown. Although previous research in crossmodal taste perception has touched upon the bipolar distinction between softness/smoothness and roughness/angularity, ambiguity largely remains surrounding other crossmodal correspondences between taste and other specific textures we regularly use to describe our food, such as crispy or crunchy. Sweetness has ...
Gustatory function and taste perception in patients with oral lichen planus and tongue involvement KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to evaluate if patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) and tongue involvement have impaired taste function and if there is an association to the perception of pain. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The test group included patients with OLP and involvement of the tongue without treatment (n = 20). Control subjects had no mucosal or systemic disease affecting taste function and were matched for age and gender (n = 20). ...