Taste bud formation depends on taste nerves
It has been known for more than a century that, in adult vertebrates, the maintenance of taste buds depends on their afferent nerves. However, the initial formation of taste buds is proposed to be nerve-independent in amphibians, and evidence to the contrary in mammals has been endlessly debated, mo...
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Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2019-10-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/49226 |