Unlike the tongue, the skin does not perceive bitterness as a taste. However, keratinocytes—the skin's first line of defense—express bitter taste receptors that function as biological ...

These cells never come in contact with environmental signals like those near the skin but are studded with receptors that appear to get sensory input from hormones, proteins and other biochemical ...

This week (July 7), a team described its research on the olfactory responses of the skin. Hanns Hatt of Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and colleagues examined the response of epidermal cells known ...

Figure 1: A side-by-side comparison of the inflammatory process in a cutaneous setting. Several advantages are evident in the work of Thepen and colleagues 1. By targeting a receptor that is ...