ReviewNutrients2021
Do Gut Microbes Taste?
Review in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- THE INTESTINAL MICROBIOME IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING BARIATRIC SURGERY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2022 · on this mapPooled it
- Phytochemicals and Irisin as Multi-Target Regulators of Adipose Tissue Browning and Metabolic Reprogramming: Synergies with GLP-1 Pathways.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Activation of Extraoral Bitter Taste Receptors by Herbs and Spices in the Regulation of Incretin Signaling and Glucose Metabolism.Nutrition reviews · 2026Review
- Taste Preferences Shape Disease Susceptibility via Heritable Nutrient Predispositions: A Behavior-Gene Coevolution Framework.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2026Article
- Machine learning elucidates associations between oral microbiota and the decline of sweet taste perception during aging.NPJ science of food · 2026Article
- Diet and nutrition key factors for oral microbiota composition: a systematic review.Food & nutrition research · 2025Review
- Patients with Taste Disorders in a Hospital's Dental Department and Strategies for Taste Disorders.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Sensory Dysfunction, Microbial Infections, and Host Responses in Alzheimer's Disease.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2024Review
- Taste Preferences at Different Ambient Temperatures and Associated Changes in Gut Microbiota and Body Weight in Mice.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Intestinal Taste Receptor Expression and Its Implications for Health: An Integrative Analysis in Female Rats after Chronic Insect Supplementation.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2024Article
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- Association between self-reported oral habits and oral health related quality of life of adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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- [Mechanisms and Management of COVID-19-Associated Taste Disorders].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2023Review
- Phylogenetically under-dispersed gut microbiomes are not correlated with host genomic heterozygosity in a genetically diverse reptile community.Molecular ecology · 2023Article
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- Impact of facemasks on the mouth as an emerging dental concern: A survey among residents of Karachi.Clinical epidemiology and global healthArticle
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Abstract
Gut microbiota has emerged as a major metabolically active organ with critical functions in both health and disease. The trillions of microorganisms hosted by the gastrointestinal tract are involved in numerous physiological and metabolic processes including modulation of appetite and regulation of energy in the host spanning from periphery to the brain. Indeed, bacteria and their metabolic byproducts are working in concert with the host chemosensory signaling pathways to affect both short- and long-term ingestive behavior. Sensing of nutrients and taste by specialized G protein-coupled receptor cells is important in transmitting food-related signals, optimizing nutrition as well as in prevention and treatment of several diseases, notably obesity, diabetes and associated metabolic disorders. Further, bacteria metabolites interact with specialized receptors cells expressed by gut epithelium leading to taste and appetite response changes to nutrients. This review describes recent advances on the role of gut bacteria in taste perception and functions. It further discusses how intestinal dysbiosis characteristic of several pathological conditions may alter and modulate taste preference and food consumption via changes in taste receptor expression.
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