Chemical and electrical synaptic interactions among taste bud cells
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Conflict of interest statement
Nothing declared.
Given his role as Guest Editor, Stephen Roper had no involvement in the peer-review of this article and has no access to information regarding its peer-review. Full responsibility for the editorial process for this article was delegated to Nirupa Chaudhari.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge and thank S A Simon (Duke) and N Chaudhari (U Miami) for their helpful comments and suggestions. I dedicate this article to Douglas A Ewald, my friend and former collaborator at Colorado State University. Doug helped pioneer the lingual slice preparation for studying taste buds ex vivo and was the first to record cell‐cell interactions between taste cells, described in the above review. Doug passed away in June 2020.
This work has been supported over the recent years
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