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Title: Sense of Taste
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the structure and function of taste buds.
Describe the relationship between the taste threshold and taste index of common substances.
Explain the chemical basis and signal transduction of taste perception for each type of primary taste sensation.
Recognize different abnormalities of taste perception and their causes.
Key Topics:
Significance of Taste Sensation:
Differentiation between pleasant and harmful food
Influence on behavior
Selection of food based on metabolic needs
Receptors of Taste:
Taste buds on the tongue
Influence of sense of smell, texture of food, and pain stimulation (e.g., by pepper)
Primary and Secondary Taste Sensations:
Primary taste sensations: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami
Chemical basis and signal transduction mechanisms for each taste
Taste Threshold and Index:
Taste threshold values for Sweet (sucrose), Salty (NaCl), Sour (HCl), and Bitter (Quinine)
Taste index relationship: Inversely proportional to taste threshold
Taste Blindness:
Inability to taste certain substances, particularly thiourea compounds
Example: Phenylthiocarbamide
Structure and Function of Taste Buds:
Composition: Epithelial cells, Sustentacular/Supporting cells, Taste cells, Basal cells
Features: Taste pores, Taste hairs/microvilli, and Taste nerve fibers
Location of Taste Buds:
Found in papillae of the tongue (Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate)
Also present on the palate, tonsillar pillars, epiglottis, and proximal esophagus
Mechanism of Taste Stimulation:
Interaction of taste substances with receptors on microvilli
Signal transduction pathways for Umami, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, and Salty tastes
Taste Sensitivity and Adaptation:
Decrease in sensitivity with age
Rapid adaptation of taste sensation
Role of Saliva in Taste:
Dissolution of tastants to reach receptors
Washing away the stimulus
Taste Preferences and Aversions:
Mechanisms behind taste preference and aversion
Influence of receptors and neural pathways
Impact of Sensory Nerve Damage:
Degeneration of taste buds if the sensory nerve fiber is cut
Abnormalities of Taste Detection:
Conditions: Ageusia, Hypogeusia, Dysgeusia (parageusia)
Causes: Nerve damage, neurological disorders, infections, poor oral hygiene, adverse drug effects, deficiencies, aging, tobacco use, altered neurotransmitter levels
Neurotransmitters and Taste Threshold:
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) on taste sensitivity
Supertasters:
25% of the population with heightened sensitivity to taste, especially bitterness
Increased number of fungiform papillae
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Early Life and Career
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Tom Selleck was born on January 29, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. From an early age, he was involved in sports, particularly basketball. which played a significant role in his physical development. His athletic pursuits continued into college. where he attended the University of Southern California (USC) on a basketball scholarship. This early involvement in sports laid a strong foundation for his physical health and disciplined lifestyle.
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Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
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Describe the primary categories of smells and the concept of odor blindness.
Explain the structure and location of the olfactory membrane and mucosa, including the types and roles of cells involved in olfaction.
Describe the pathway and mechanisms of olfactory signal transmission from the olfactory receptors to the brain.
Illustrate the biochemical cascade triggered by odorant binding to olfactory receptors, including the role of G-proteins and second messengers in generating an action potential.
Identify different types of olfactory disorders such as anosmia, hyposmia, hyperosmia, and dysosmia, including their potential causes.
Key Topics:
Olfactory Genes:
3% of the human genome accounts for olfactory genes.
400 genes for odorant receptors.
Olfactory Membrane:
Located in the superior part of the nasal cavity.
Medially: Folds downward along the superior septum.
Laterally: Folds over the superior turbinate and upper surface of the middle turbinate.
Total surface area: 5-10 square centimeters.
Olfactory Mucosa:
Olfactory Cells: Bipolar nerve cells derived from the CNS (100 million), with 4-25 olfactory cilia per cell.
Sustentacular Cells: Produce mucus and maintain ionic and molecular environment.
Basal Cells: Replace worn-out olfactory cells with an average lifespan of 1-2 months.
Bowman’s Gland: Secretes mucus.
Stimulation of Olfactory Cells:
Odorant dissolves in mucus and attaches to receptors on olfactory cilia.
Involves a cascade effect through G-proteins and second messengers, leading to depolarization and action potential generation in the olfactory nerve.
Quality of a Good Odorant:
Small (3-20 Carbon atoms), volatile, water-soluble, and lipid-soluble.
Facilitated by odorant-binding proteins in mucus.
Membrane Potential and Action Potential:
Resting membrane potential: -55mV.
Action potential frequency in the olfactory nerve increases with odorant strength.
Adaptation Towards the Sense of Smell:
Rapid adaptation within the first second, with further slow adaptation.
Psychological adaptation greater than receptor adaptation, involving feedback inhibition from the central nervous system.
Primary Sensations of Smell:
Camphoraceous, Musky, Floral, Pepperminty, Ethereal, Pungent, Putrid.
Odor Detection Threshold:
Examples: Hydrogen sulfide (0.0005 ppm), Methyl-mercaptan (0.002 ppm).
Some toxic substances are odorless at lethal concentrations.
Characteristics of Smell:
Odor blindness for single substances due to lack of appropriate receptor protein.
Behavioral and emotional influences of smell.
Transmission of Olfactory Signals:
From olfactory cells to glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, involving lateral inhibition.
Primitive, less old, and new olfactory systems with different path
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Southeast Missouri Hospital Case Study
1. Custom Messaging Fills Communications Gaps
for Southeast Missouri Hospital
Southeast Missouri Hospital (SMH),
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is a
Magnet-designated 267 bed regional
medical complex. Connecting employees,
physicians, patients and their families,
SMH uses both Vericom’s SoundCare®
on-hold messaging and
ChannelCare™ digital signage to
communicate effectively with
diverse audiences both
on- and off-campus.
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2. 2
Southeast Missouri Hospital (SMH) launched sustainable communications platform that provided
ChannelCare™digital signage in 2008 with 36 essential information we needed to routinely
monitor locations and immediately began delivering get to our audiences,” says Quinn. “We knew the
messages about patient safety, community health ChannelCare system would be able to support our
screenings, physician referral services, employee communications objectives for years to come. By
recognition, and even included jokes submitted effectively reaching audiences within your four walls,
by employees to “brighten” the day. SoundCare® you add value to a relationship that may have been
on-hold messaging was also implemented at the simply casual.”
same time to deliver marketing and informational
messages to callers placed on hold—an often-
overlooked and captive audience.
“We knew the ChannelCare system would
be able to support our communications
objectives for years to come.”
Candace Quinn
Senior Strategist and Strategic Consultant
“Both SoundCare and ChannelCare elevate
the professional image of the hospital by
demonstrating the hospital’s adoption of
advanced digital technology. This is a
significant benefit for SMH.”
Keith Whitworth, Marketing Manager
Eliminating paper and supporting
“Go Green” initiatives
ChannelCare has reduced the dependency on
posters, easels, and tacked-up messages that used
Supporting strategic initiatives to be scattered throughout the hospital. In the
past, in the event of a meeting schedule change,
A strategic consultant to Southeast Missouri, someone from the hospital’s education department
Candace Quinn of Brand = Experience helped to would physically walk over to each building to tack
bring ChannelCare on board to provide high-tech up a message. “ChannelCare eliminated this manual,
digital communications that would seamlessly ineffective system and gives us a high-tech image
integrate with and support strategic initiatives. “By with the added benefit of updating information in
partnering with Vericom, we were able to offer a real time,” says Keith Whitworth, marketing manager.
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“We can do a direct mail piece one time, and A communications partnership
subsequently follow up with messages on both
ChannelCare™ and SoundCare®. This message The ChannelCare system includes easy-to-use,
reinforcement is quite effective as well as helps web-based software where users can create and
with our “go green” initiatives,” adds Whitworth. upload their own content, have Vericom develop
ChannelCare’s ten different program channels high-definition content, as well as choose messages
enable marketing to ensure content is unique and from the ChannelCare health content library. “We
relevant to different audiences. The messages make appreciate the fact that Vericom is receptive to our
sense to viewers where they are, so they can easily ideas about how they can improve their software
respond and take appropriate action. “ChannelCare to enhance the client experience,” says Whitworth.
is one of our key marketing tactics. It allows us “Vericom is all about the customer and service. I
to focus on product line promotion where we cannot think of another vendor who contacts me to
consistently use call-to-action that gets results,” get my input on the software and their system.“
says Whitworth.
SMH has an in-house design team who creates
ChannelCare messages and then easily uploads
them into the ChannelCare system. “Our designers
enjoy creating ChannelCare messages. They are not
restricted as they are with designing a brochure and
can be very creative, yet keep our similar look and
branding,” says Whitworth.
Southeast marketing also ensures message
consistency across all media by taking messages
already created for outside digital billboards and
uploading these messages into ChannelCare.
To round out the many options for content
development, the marketing team also works with
Vericom’s design team to create high-definition
collaboration messages they can use at any time.
“The ability to use already-created billboard
messages via ChannelCare is very cost-effective.
Connecting off-campus locations For instance, when people see a message about
our physician referral service on the drive here, and
Connecting off-site locations is important to then the same message at the hospital, they’re more
communicating effectively and ensuring branding likely to remember it and take action, “ says Jay Wolz,
consistency. SMH has a wellness center located supervisor of market management.
inside the West Park Mall where ChannelCare
provides messaging similar to what plays at on-
campus locations. “ChannelCare is an important
extension of our branding that enhances our
community recognition,” says Whitworth. “This
increased presence has helped increase the number
of people who register for blood pressure and
diabetes screenings, among others.”
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ChannelCare helps prepare
for surveys and visits
As a Magnet-designated hospital for nursing
excellence, SMH is in a constant state of survey-
readiness, helping employees prepare for surveyors
who come to assess the facility. Marketing created
ChannelCare messages to remind employees and
staff about upcoming visits to put them in the frame
of mind of “thinking Magnet.” Messages provide
passive learning and reinforce what people need to
Reaching calling audiences first know— such as “the 14 forces of magnetism.” These
with SoundCare® messages energize employees and get everyone on
the same page, keeping the issue front-of-mind.
Both SoundCare® and ChannelCare™ elevate the
status and image of SMH. “SoundCare’s professional ChannelCare also helps staff prepare for Joint
voices are outstanding and because of the way Commission visits by displaying, “What would you do
messages engage callers, they have no idea how in case of fire?” for example. ”Enhancing employee
long they are holding,” says Whitworth. communications is a constant work in progress,”
says Quinn. “All organizations face obstacles when
Southeast’s marketing team focuses on seasonal it comes to getting important, consistent messages
messages, key product lines, as well as customizes to staff and physicians. With ChannelCare, we can
and tags messages selected from the SoundIdeas reach these audiences with messages designed just
content library. Readily available messages in the for them, in addition to marketing messages, and
library include signs of stroke that can be tagged engage employees through a more
with call-to-action to drive people to their on-line dynamic medium.”
stroke risk analysis. When SMH received their 5-star
rating from HealthGrades, they were able to take a
SoundIdeas message on stroke and tag it with their
new HealthGrades designation. “We always look at
what messages work best with a particular call-to-
action. We want to ensure our callers can
take action quickly and easily,” says Whitworth.
“We get a lot of support from Vericom and,
as a result, can do so much more and be
involved in technological developments and
product enhancements. As a customer, this
makes us feel important and highly valued.” For more information on ChannelCare digital signage and
SoundCare on-hold messaging, call 800-800-1090, email
Keith Whitworth, Marketing Manager marketing@vericom.net or visit www.vericom.net.
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