Qiang Yu, Igor Gamayun, Philipp Wartenberg, Qian Zhang, Sen Qiao, Soumya Kusumakshi, Sarah Candlish, Viktoria Götz, Shuping Wen, Debajyoti Das, Amanda Wyatt, Vanessa Wahl, Fabien Ectors, Kathrin Kattler, Daniela Yildiz, Vincent Prevot, Markus Schwaninger, Gaetan Ternier, Paolo Giacobini, Philippe Ciofi, Timo D Müller, Ulrich Boehm
The median eminence (ME) is a circumventricular organ at the base of the brain that controls body homeostasis. Tanycytes are its specialized glial cells that constitute the ventricular walls and regulate different physiological states, however individual signaling pathways in these cells are incompletely understood. Here, we identify a functional tanycyte subpopulation that expresses key taste transduction genes including bitter taste receptors, the G protein gustducin and the gustatory ion channel TRPM5 (M5)...
March 22, 2023: Nature Communications