Ghrelin Is Produced in Taste Cells and Ghrelin Receptor Null Mice Show Reduced Taste Responsivity to Salty (NaCl) and Sour (Citric Acid) Tastants

• Yu-Kyong Shin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Kyong Shin, Bronwen Martin

  Affiliation National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Bronwen Martin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Kyong Shin, Bronwen Martin

  Affiliation National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Wook Kim,

  Affiliation National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Caitlin M. White,

  Affiliation National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sunggoan Ji,

  Affiliation National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yuxiang Sun,

  Affiliation Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Roy G. Smith,

  Affiliation Department of Metabolism and Aging, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

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• Jean Sévigny,

  Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Rhumatologie et Immunologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada

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• Matthias H. Tschöp,

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, Metabolic Diseases Institute, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Stuart Maudsley,

  Affiliation National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Josephine M. Egan

  * E-mail: eganj@mail.nih.gov

  Affiliation National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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