Evidence for a role of voltage-sensitive apical K+ channels in sour and salt taste transduction
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemical Senses
- Vol. 13 (1) , 115-121
- https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/13.1.115
Abstract
The taste stimulus KCl is transduced in mudpuppy taste cells by a voltage-sensitive K+ conductance on the apical membrane. Sour taste stimuli produce depolarizing receptor potentials by blocking this conductance.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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