Tongue TS, stained brightfield photomicrograph showing papillae
The tongue is covered with numerous taste buds, and filiform, fungiform, vallate and foliate, lingual papillae. Chemicals that stimulate taste receptor cells are known as tastants. Once a tastant is dissolved in saliva, it can make contact with the plasma membrane of the gustatory hairs, which are the sites of taste transduction
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Keywords: anatomy, brightfield, buds, filiform, fungiform, histology, lingual, papillae, photomicrograph, showing, stained, tastant, taste, tongue, ts, vallate
