Sensing Via Intestinal Sweet Taste Pathways
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Vol. 5, 23
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2011.00023
Abstract
The detection of nutrients in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is of fundamental significance to the control of motility, glycemia and energy intake, and yet we barely know the most fundamental aspects of this process. This is in stark contrast to the mechanisms underlying the detection of lingual taste, which have been increasingly well characterized in recent years, and which provide an excellent starting point for characterizing nutrient detection in the intestine. This review focuses on the form and function of sweet taste transduction mechanisms identified in the intestinal tract; it does not focus on sensors for fatty acids or proteins. It examines the intestinal cell types equipped with sweet taste transduction molecules in animals and humans, their location, and potential signals that transduce the presence of nutrients to neural pathways involved in reflex control of GI motility.This publication has 178 references indexed in Scilit:
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