Chemosensation

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Sensory Physiology subtree

Taste (gustation): GPCR-mediated sweet/bitter/umami + ion-channel salty/sour. Smell (olfaction): ~400 OR GPCRs in humans, combinatorial coding by Buck-Axel mechanism (Nobel 2004).

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