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Role of BDNF in the taste system

  • Lingbin MENG 1 ,
  • Xiaolei CHEN 2 ,
  • Rongqiang YANG 3 ,
  • Rui JI , 3
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  • 1. Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
  • 2. Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
  • 3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40202, USA

Received date: 03 Aug 2014

Accepted date: 22 Sep 2014

Published date: 13 Jan 2015

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Neurotrophins are a family of proteins that regulate neural survival, development, function and plasticity in the central and the peripheral nervous system. There are four neurotrophins: NGF, BDNF, NT-3 and NT-4. Among them, BDNF is mostly studied in the taste system due to its high expression. Recent studies have shown BDNF play an important role in the developmental and mature taste system, by regulating survival of taste cells and geniculate ganglion neurons, and maintaining and guiding taste nerve innervations. These studies imply BDNF has great potentialities for therapeutic usage to enhance sensory regeneration following nerve injury, with aging, and in some neurodegenerative diseases.

Cite this article

Lingbin MENG , Xiaolei CHEN , Rongqiang YANG , Rui JI . Role of BDNF in the taste system[J]. Frontiers in Biology, 2014 , 9(6) : 481 -488 . DOI: 10.1007/s11515-014-1335-x

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