Location of taste buds in intact taste papillae by a selective staining method
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Histochemistry and Cell Biology
- Vol. 58 (3) , 145-151
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00495713
Abstract
Taste buds were found to stain strongly and selectively in intact papillae with highly acidic dyes such as ponceau S. In intact tongues the taste buds in the fungiform, circumvallate and foliate papillae of the cynomolgus monkey and in the fungiform papillae of the rat as well as the taste discs in the fungiform papillae of the frog could be visualized. This method enables a rapid location and counting of taste buds in taste papillae without preparing histological sections. In cynomolgus tongue material fixed in formalin, the dyes penetrate into the buds. In fresh tongues only the taste pore region of the buds stains, which suggests that in vivo taste buds are impenetrable underneath the pore.Keywords
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