Hey bruv!...... Your testicles and
anus have just being discovered to have taste bud receptors that can detect sweet flavours and they’re essential for
reproduction/linked to your fertility.
The study of taste buds in mice unveiled this surprising
finding. Taste receptors are found all over the your body, including in your anus.
Scientists say that, despite being a long way from your mouth, taste receptors on your testicles and anus can also detect the savory
taste of umami - the amino acid in soy sauce.
Researchers had no idea why the body parts had the receptors
until they tried to breed mice without them for a study on taste.
Their accidental discovery showed that male mice were
rendered infertile when they were missing the proteins GNAT3 and TAS1R3 or were
given a substance to block them from working.
Having only one of the proteins means the male mice can
still breed, but it turned out that when both of the proteins were missing, the
sperm struggled to swim and the testes became malformed.
'The males are sterile, their sperm count is low, and
spermatozoa are not developed properly, researcher Bedrich Mosinger told Business
Insider.
Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in
Philadelphia have published their findings in the journal Proceedings Of The
National Academy of Sciences.
Mosinger also revealed that the drug used to block the taste
receptors comes from the same class of drugs used to treat high cholesterol in
humans - raising the possibility that pills could be interfering with human
fertility.
'Like much good science, our current findings pose more
questions than answers,' said researcher Robert Margolskee.
'We now need to identify the pathways and mechanisms in
testes that utilise these taste genes so we can understand how their loss leads
to infertility.'
Mosinger and Margolskee also said that the groundbreaking
findings could pave the way for new cures for infertilty or even a male birth
control pill.
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