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Elzbieta Polanowska
Bio: Elzbieta Polanowska is an academic researcher from AstraZeneca. The author has contributed to research in topics: Taste & Taste function. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 167 citations.
Topics: Taste, Taste function, Opioid antagonist, Naltrexone, Alcohol dependence
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TL;DR: It is suggested that increased aversive responses to salt taste may predict future development of alcohol dependence.
Abstract: The aim of the present study was to compare taste responses (intensity and pleasantness/unpleasantness) to sweet, bitter, sour, and salty solutions in sons of male alcoholics (SOMAs) and control subjects with no family history of alcoholism. In addition, responses to Coca-Cola flavour were evaluated in both groups. Unpleasantness of salty solutions was significantly enhanced and intensity of sour solutions tended to be higher in the SOMAs. There were no other differences between the groups. Thus, contrary to previous suggestions, genetically determined vulnerability to alcohol dependence may not be associated with altered responses to sweet substances. The present findings would rather suggest that increased aversive responses to salt taste may predict future development of alcohol dependence.
47 citations
TL;DR: The aim of the present study was to compare taste responses to sweet, bitter, sour and salty solutions in male alcoholics and control subjects and found that the groups did not differ in terms of rated intensity or pleasantness.
Abstract: The aim of the present study was to compare taste responses to sweet, bitter, sour and salty solutions in male alcoholics and control subjects. The groups did not differ in terms of rated intensity or pleasantness of sucrose (1-30%), quinine (0.001-0.005%), citric acid (0.02-0.1%) and sodium chloride (0.18-0.9%) solutions. The proportion of sweet-likers was also similar in both groups.
40 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared taste responses to sweet, bitter, sour, and salty solutions in methadone-maintained opioid-dependent men and healthy control subjects and found that participants reported adding more table sugar to caffeinated beverages.
34 citations
01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: The results of the present study suggest that changes in taste reactivity may not be responsible for altered dietary choices in opioid addicts.
Abstract: It has been shown repeatedly that opioid dependence is associated with increased consumption of refined sugars. It is possible that this association results from altered taste reactivity in opioid-dependent subjects. Thus, in the present study, we compared taste responses to sweet, bitter, sour and salty solutions in methadone-maintained opioid-dependent men and healthy control subjects. The two groups did not differ in terms of rated intensity or pleasantness of sucrose (1/30%), quinine (0.001/0.005%), citric acid (0.02/0.1%) and sodium chloride (0.18/0.9%) solutions. Proportions of ‘sweet-likers’, i.e. subjects rating a 30% sucrose (0.88 M) solution as the most pleasant, were also similar in both groups. In line with the previous findings, the methadone-maintained subjects reported adding more table sugar to caffeinated beverages. The results of the present study suggest that changes in taste reactivity may not be responsible for altered dietary choices in opioid addicts. # 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
30 citations
TL;DR: The aim of the present study was to compare taste responses to sweet, bitter, sour and salty solutions in male alcoholics and control subjects and found that the groups did not differ in terms of rated intensity or pleasantness.
9 citations
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TL;DR: The review concludes that the present data suggests a single opioid mechanism is unlikely to explain all aspects of ingestive behaviour, but also concludes that opioid-mediated reward mechanisms play an important control in hedonic aspects of ingestion.
312 citations
TL;DR: It is suggested that it might be more useful to focus on overeating that results in frank obesity, and multiple health, interpersonal, and occupational negative consequences as a form of food "abuse".
230 citations
TL;DR: The results support that variation in oral sensation associates with alcohol intake, and those who taste PROP as least bitter and have low chorda tympani relative to whole mouth taste intensity appear to have fewest oral sensory hindrances to the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
164 citations
TL;DR: How sugars interact with regulatory neurochemicals in the brain to affect both energy intake and energy expenditure is discussed and the relation between sweet taste and drug reward is investigated, although the relevance to humans is unclear.
163 citations
TL;DR: Findings support that PROP bitterness predicts both positive and negative tastes from alcoholic beverages and that those tastes may predict alcohol intake and that the college environment may attenuate direct effects of PROPterness and intake.
162 citations