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Human taste thresholds are modulated by serotonin and noradrenaline

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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 26, 期 49, 页码 12664-12671

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SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3459-06.2006

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taste; chemosensory; serotonin; noradrenaline; anxiety; depression

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  1. Medical Research Council [G0000136] Funding Source: researchfish
  2. MRC [G0000136] Funding Source: UKRI

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Circumstances in which serotonin (5-HT) and noradrenaline (NA) are altered, such as in anxiety or depression, are associated with taste disturbances, indicating the importance of these transmitters in the determination of taste thresholds in health and disease. In this study, we show for the first time that human taste thresholds are plastic and are lowered by modulation of systemic monoamines. Measurement of taste function in healthy humans before and after a 5-HT reuptake inhibitor, NAreuptake inhibitor, or placebo showed that enhancing 5-HT significantly reduced the sucrose taste threshold by 27% and the quinine taste threshold by 53%. In contrast, enhancing NA significantly reduced bitter taste threshold by 39% and sour threshold by 22%. In addition, the anxiety level was positively correlated with bitter and salt taste thresholds. We show that 5-HT and NA participate in setting taste thresholds, that human taste in normal healthy subjects is plastic, and that modulation of these neurotransmitters has distinct effects on different taste modalities. We present a model to explain these findings. In addition, we show that the general anxiety level is directly related to taste perception, suggesting that altered taste and appetite seen in affective disorders may reflect an actual change in the gustatory system.

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