Salty sensations

Bertrand Coste () and Ardem Patapoutian ()
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Bertrand Coste: Bertrand Coste is in the Ion Channels and Sensory Transduction Group, CRN2M, CNRS–Aix-Marseille University, Marseille 13015, France.
Ardem Patapoutian: Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, and at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California 92121, USA.

Nature, 2013, vol. 494, issue 7435, 44-45

Abstract: Salt is important in health and disease, yet how mammals sense it is not completely clear. Evidence in worms suggests that TMC proteins, which are implicated in human hearing, are salt receptors involved in taste. See Letter p.95

Date: 2013
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