Andrew Kaufman1, Jennie Kim2, Corinna Noel1, Robin Dando3. 1. Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA. 2. College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA. 3. Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA. robin.dando@cornell.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Our sense of taste is critical in defining our food choices and habits. Located primarily in our tongue, taste buds are small assemblies of constantly renewing sensory cells, tasked with evaluating oral stimuli before the food we eat is consumed. METHODS: Using both mice and a free-living human population, we tracked taste papilla abundancy with weight gain, to test for deficiencies in the taste system of obese mice and humans with increased adiposity. RESULTS: Mice fed a high-fat diet for 8 weeks expressed markers for all subtypes of taste cells at a lower level than chow-fed counterparts. This came alongside the loss of markers for taste cell proliferation (Ki-67) and development (β-catenin), as well as lower fungiform papillae density, consistent with earlier results showing lower circumvallate taste bud abundance in obese mice. Likewise, in a population of college students tracked through 4 years of college attendance, the change in density of fungiform papillae, which house taste buds in the anterior tongue, was negatively correlated with change in neck circumference, a marker of adiposity. CONCLUSIONS: These results highlight changes in taste during weight gain as a potentially important consideration in the study of obesity.
BACKGROUND: Our sense of taste is critical in defining our food choices and habits. Located primarily in our tongue, taste buds are small assemblies of constantly renewing sensory cells, tasked with evaluating oral stimuli before the food we eat is consumed. METHODS: Using both mice and a free-living human population, we tracked taste papilla abundancy with weight gain, to test for deficiencies in the taste system of obesemice and humans with increased adiposity. RESULTS:Mice fed a high-fat diet for 8 weeks expressed markers for all subtypes of taste cells at a lower level than chow-fed counterparts. This came alongside the loss of markers for taste cell proliferation (Ki-67) and development (β-catenin), as well as lower fungiform papillae density, consistent with earlier results showing lower circumvallate taste bud abundance in obesemice. Likewise, in a population of college students tracked through 4 years of college attendance, the change in density of fungiform papillae, which house taste buds in the anterior tongue, was negatively correlated with change in neck circumference, a marker of adiposity. CONCLUSIONS: These results highlight changes in taste during weight gain as a potentially important consideration in the study of obesity.
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