| Introduction to the symposium |
JD Fernstrom |
| The gourmet ape: evolution and human food preferences |
JR Krebs |
| Umami and the foods of classical antiquity |
RI Curtis |
| Glutamate: from discovery as a food flavor to role as a basic taste (umami) |
K Kurihara |
| Sensory and receptor responses to umami: an overview of pioneering work |
GK Beauchamp |
| History of glutamate production |
C Sano |
| T1R receptors mediate mammalian sweet and umami taste |
X Li |
| Taste receptors for umami: the case for multiple receptors |
N Chaudhari, E Pereira, and SD Roper |
| Metabotropic glutamate receptor type 1 in taste tissue |
A San Gabriel, T
Maekawa, H
Uneyama, and K Torii |
| Multiple receptors underlie glutamate taste responses in mice |
K Yasumatsu, N
Horio, Y Murata, S
Shirosaki, T Ohkuri, R
Yoshida, and Y
Ninomiya |
| Umami taste transduction mechanisms |
SC Kinnamon |
| Glutamate taste and appetite in laboratory mice: physiologic and genetic analyses |
AA Bachmanov, M
Inoue, H ji, Y Murata,
MG Tordoff, and GK
Beauchamp |
| Variation in umami perception and in candidate genes for the umami receptor in mice and humans |
N Shigemura, S
Shirosaki, T Ohkuri, K
Sanematsu, AAS
Islam, Y Ogiwara, M
Kawai, R Yoshida,
and Y Ninomiya |
| Perceptual variation in umami taste and polymorphisms in TAS1R taste receptor genes |
Q-Y Chen, S Alarcon,
A Tharp, OM Ahmed,
NL Estrella, TA
Greene, J Rucker,
and PAS Breslin |
| Early milk feeding influences taste acceptance and liking during infancy |
JA Mennella, CA
Forestell, LK Morgan,
and GK Beauchamp |
| Nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in human tas1r1, tas1r3, and mGluR1 and individual taste sensitivity to glutamate |
M Raliou, A Wiencis,
A-M Pillias, A
Planchais, C Eloit, Y
Boucher, D Trotier,
J-P Montmayeur,
and A Faurion |
| Taste and weight: is there a link? |
LF Donaldson, L
Bennett, S Baic, and
JK Melichar |
| Functional neuroimaging of umami taste: what makes umami pleasant? |
ET Rolls |
| Metabolism and functions of L-glutamate in the epithelial cells of the small and large intestines |
F Blachier, C Boutry,
C Bos, and D Tome |
| Taste signaling elements expressed in gut enteroendocrine cells regulate nutrientresponsive secretion of gut hormones |
Z Kokrashvili, B
Mosinger, and RF
Margolskee |
| Luminal chemosensing and upper gastrointestinal mucosal defenses |
Y Akiba |
| Activation of the gut-brain axis by dietary glutamate and physiologic significance in energy homoeostasis |
T Kondoh, H Nanda
Mallick, and KTorii |
| Protein, amino acids, vagus nerve signaling, and the brain |
D Tome, J Schwarz,
N Darcel, and G
Fromentin |
| Can dietary supplementation of monosodium glutamate improve the health of the elderly? |
S Yamamoto, M
Tomoe, K Toyama, M
Kwai, and H Uneyama |
| Metabolic fate and function of dietary glutamate in the gut |
DG Burrin and B Stoll |
| Hepatic glutamate metabolism: a tale of 2 hepatocytes |
ME Brosnan and JT
Brosnan |
| Regulation of glutamate metabolism and insulin secretion by glutamate dehydrogenase in hypoglycemic children |
CA Stanley |
| The blood-brain barrier and glutamate |
RA Hawkins |
| Role of glutamate in neuron-glia metabolic coupling |
PJ Magistretti |
| Symposium summary |
JD Fernstrom |
