Talk:Gustatory system

Entries around December 2012, time to remove taste material

I have added considerable material to this page, including many inline citations requested by the administrator. The material is mainly concerned with the mechanisms and methods of gustation and not about the perception of taste which has its own wili page.

I am prepared to edit the material under the heading Importance. It would involve removing much of the material without inline citations and directing the reader to the taste wiki. The idea is to more closely conform to the WikiProject Medicine guidelines. The Gustatory system page would remain in its present location.

Does anyone object to this editing activity?

Steamboat Jim (talk) 19:35, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

After receiving only positive feedback so far, I plan to move selected parts of the "taste" material under the heading "Importance" from the gustatory system to the taste page sometime next week Steamboat Jim (talk) 18:55, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

older entries

HELP!!! In my second edit (see history), the page came out all funny like it looks now. I don't how to revert, and even if I did I dont want to lose the stuff I added. Can anyone assist? Benji64 00:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Never mind I think I fixed it. By the way, my format here is total crap and I think I may have addeda lot of unnecessary information that is already contained in other articles. If someone else could have a look at it that would be cool. Cool. Thanks. Benji64 00:35, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Neuron and action potential

The parts on describing the neuron and action potential should probably be removed as they have their own section. I am still unclear of the etiquette involved in editing so I will leave it someone else for now.MilitantLeftist 07:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree. There is far more detail than necessary to understand the gustatory system. It is preferable to link to the articles on neurons and action potentials for readers who are interested in learning more. Glonick (talk) 01:12, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Merge with taste

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was not merged. Transhumanist made an excellent argument against it. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 04:33, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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Most information on this page is redundant with the information on basic tastes in the article about taste. Suggested merge. --Tinctorius (talk) 23:58, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I totally agree, I clicked in from the taste article and the two seemed pretty much identical to me. Geravago (talk) 21:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

After someone made an automatic redirect from /wiki/Gustatory_system to /wiki/Taste, I was desperately looking for information that is on this page, but not on the Taste page! Only after redirect=no did I find this page...whew. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.139.137.187 (talk) 03:02, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Almost all of it is redundant, and that which isn't is lacking inline citations. Could you describe the content you were looking for? --Arcadian (talk) 03:29, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Oppose merge - The subject of taste is the sense or sensory perception, and its article focuses mostly on flavor sensations. The subject "the gustatory system" refers to the anatomy and physiology of the human body related to taste. That is, the taste sensory system as an anatomical structure. This is a distinct subject, and is referred to as an organ in the Terminologia Anatomica, the international standard on human anatomic terminology. Wikipedia's collection of anatomical articles would be incomplete without it.

We need this article to complete Wikipedia's coverage of sensory systems, to accompany its sister articles:

• visual system
• auditory system
• olfactory system
• somatosensory system
• vestibular system

Please do not remove gustatory system from this important set of anatomy articles. Thank you. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 11:46, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Table for Gustatory system

I'm building easy to understand tables for all the sensory systems. If you have any ideas please write them here. User:Leveni 1 March 2011

Please debug them a bit before committing them. And don't capitalize non-initial words in headings, like "Brain". I reverted at auditory system already; put it back when it looks sensible, but don't leave out all the intermediate nervous system stages there. Dicklyon (talk) 04:42, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Name	Function
Taste bud	The taste buds contain receptors that detect the 5 elements of taste: salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and savory.
Cranial_nerve	Facial_nerve	Is the 7th cranial nerve. It receives and carries taste sensations from the anterior two thirds of the tongue to the brain.
	Glossopharyngeal nerve	Is the 9th cranial nerve. It receives and carries taste sensations from the posterior one third of the tongue to the brain.
	Vagus nerve	The 10th cranial nerve. Controls the Palatoglossus muscle in the tongue and carries some taste sensations from the back of the oral cavity.
	Hypoglossal nerve	The 12th cranial nerve. Entirely dedicated to supplying motor fibres to the muscles of the tongue (except Palatoglossus_muscle, controlled by the Vagus nerve).
Nucleus of the solitary tract	Apart from taste it also carries visceral sensations from cranial nerves to various parts of the brain. It runs the length of the medulla and is made up of white matter surrounded by grey matter.
The Brain	Cerebral cortex	Outer most sheet of tissue of the Cerebrum. It receives sensory information in its Sensory areas
	Limbic system	Thalmus	Part of the function of the Thalmus is to relay sensations to the cerebral cortex. Every sensory system goes through the Thalmus with the exception of the olfactory system.
		Hypothalamus	Homoeostatic regulator for many parts of the body. Controls hunger, thirst, body temperature, fatigue, sleep and Circadian rhythm.
		Amygdala	Plays a major role in processing memory and emotional reactions.

I removed the table (reproduced above) on the basis that I think it is unencyclopedic content. Regarding these proposed tables, editors might like to follow the discussion here Famousdog (talk) 10:20, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Recent deletions, lead, and citations

I deleted the recent edits for a number of reasons:

• They were poorly sourced
• The sources were not properly formatted
• Much of the sourcing was a non-peer-reviewed website, not a reliable source
• There were many typos
• Much of the information was not consistent with the rest of the article, and did not appropriately link to other wiki articles so as to make the ideas more clear.

In general, original research is suspected.

But I agree that the lead should be expanded, and external sources via inline citations need to be provided as references. Does anyone have anything to contribute in this regard?

I am not promising to "fix" anything, I am removing non-peer-reviewed original research. Eflatmajor7th (talk) 03:14, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Eflatmajor7th (talk) 03:02, 25 November 2012 (UTC)