Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Li, Xia
• Li, Weihua
• Wang, Hong
• Bayley, Douglas L
• Cao, Jie
• Reed, Danielle R
• Bachmanov, Alexander A
• Huang, Liquan
• Legrand-Defretin, Véronique
• Beauchamp, Gary K
• Brand, Joseph G

Titel

Cats Lack a Sweet Taste Receptor1–3

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of nutrition, 2006-07, Vol.136 (7), p.1932S-1934S

Ort / Verlag

Bethesda: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Domestic cats (Felis silivstris aitu.s) (herein referred to as "cats") are neither attracted to, nor show avoidance of the taste of sweet carhohydrates and high-intensity sweeteners (1-3), yet they do show a preference for selected amino acids (4), and avoid stimuli that taste either hitter or very sour to humans (1,4). Consistent with this behavioral evidence, recordings from cat taste nerve fibers and from units of the geniculate ganglion innervating taste cells demonstrated responses to salty, sour, and bitter stimuli as well as to amino acids and nucleotides, but showed no response to sucrose and several other sugars (4-11).