Topic: your testes have taste receptors #FYI

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http://www.businessinsider.com/taste-receptors-in-testes-and-fertility-2013-7

Taste receptors — the proteins responsible for our ability to taste salty, sweet, and bitter foods — aren't just present on our tongues.

According to researchers, these receptors have been found in the stomach, intestines, pancreas, lungs, brain, and anus (cool!). However, no one really knows what they're there for.

As researcher Bedrich Mosinger wrote in an email to Business Insider:

[The] function of taste receptors and signaling proteins outside of taste system is still unclear... [in some areas] they seem to be part of the chemical sensing of sugars or amino acids. For the most part, though, full function of these extra-orally located taste receptors is unknown.


Research published on July 1 in the journal Proceedings Of The National Academy of Sciences sheds some light on the function of the testicular taste receptors: in studies conducted on mice, they've been found to play an important role in male fertility. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/06/26/1302827110


Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center were originally attempting to develop mice without sweet and umami receptors for a taste-related study, but they quickly realized that mice lacking those receptors were unable to reproduce. After conducting further studies, they found that removing these receptors from the testes — or even blocking their function — rendered the mice infertile.

Understanding this reaction could allow scientists to better understand the interaction of certain drugs with human fertility; it could also lead to the development of a male birth control pill.

thanks science! 

so guys, how do you like 'em oranges?  

[Idiot]

ha

kaya pala noon nanunuod ako ng Big Bang Theory

nagdedebate sina Sheldon Cooper na may taste sensor ang anus di ko lang alam kung si AMy or Leonard kasama nya