MIMICKING SENSING MECHANISM OF TASTE THROUGH SALT-WATER OSCILLATOR AND ITS NONELECTROLYTE ANALOGS - EXPERIMENTS WITH COMPOUNDS BELONGING TODIFFERENT TASTE CATEGORIES

Studies have been conducted which indicate that the salt-water type of oscillator can be a good candidate for mimicking the sensing mechanis m of taste. It has been argued that the amplitude of the electrical po tential oscillation in the salt-water type of oscillator is analogue o f the receptor potential. The amplitudes of the electrical potential o scillations in the salt-water type of oscillator have been shown to co rrelate well with the logarithms of the relative taste indices, concen tration etc. of the substances belonging to different taste categories .