Ecological Sensing Through Taste and Chemosensation Mediates Inflammation: A Biological Anthropological Approach.

ABSTRACT: Ecological sensing and inflammation have evolved to ensure optima between organism survival and reproductive success in different and changing environments. At the molecular level, ecological sensing consists of many types of receptors located in different tissues that orchestrate integrated responses (immune, neuroendocrine systems) to external and internal stimuli. This review describes emerging data on taste and chemosensory receptors, proposing them as broad ecological sensors and providing evidence that taste perception is shaped not only according to sense epitopes from nutrients but also in response to highly diverse external and internal stimuli. We apply a biological anthropological approach to examine how ecological sensing has been shaped by these stimuli through human evolution

SUBMITTER: Giuliani C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7666896 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature