• What makes something smell good or bad? 

  Kenney, Rakaia; Lemons, Kayla; Lin, Weihong (The Conversation, 2020-06-01)

• E-cig flavors may be more than alluring; they could cause damage themselves 

  Lin, Weihong; Kenney, Rakaia (The Conversation, 2020-01-29)

• Acetylcholine and Acetylcholine Receptors in Taste Receptor Cells 

  Ogura, Tatsuya; Lin, Weihong (Oxford University Press, 2005-01-01)

• Downstream Signaling Effectors for Umami Taste 

  Kinnamon, Sue C.; Lin, Weihong; Ogura, Tatsuya; Ruiz, Collin; Delay, Eugene (Oxford University Press, 2005-01-01)

• Sequence and Properties of Cagein, a Coiled‐Coil Scaffold Protein Linking Basal Bodies in the Polykinetids of the Ciliate Euplotes aediculatus 

  Kloetzel, John A.; Aubusson‐Fleury, Anne; Butler, Maurice D.; Banerjee, Deben; Mozzicafreddo, Matteo (Wiley Online Library, 2021-03-19)

  In the hypotrich ciliate Euplotes, many individual basal bodies are grouped together in tightly packed clusters, forming ventral polykinetids. These groups of basal bodies (which produce compound ciliary organelles such ...

• UMBC student research offers hope for critically endangered Bahama Oriole 

  Hansen, Sarah (UMBC News, 2021-03-04)

• Development of Membrane Properties in Taste Cells of Fungiform Papillae: Functional Evidence for Early Presence of Amiloride-Sensitive Sodium Channels 

  Kossel, A. H.; McPheeters, M.; Lin, Weihong; Kinnamon, S. C. (Society for Neuroscience, 1997-12-15)

  Behavioral and physiological studies have demonstrated a reduced sensitivity to several taste stimuli early in development. It has been suggested that this reduced sensitivity results from a late maturation of underlying ...

• Physiological Evidence for Ionotropic and Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Rat Taste Cells 

  Lin, Weihong; Kinnamon, Sue C. (American Physiological Society (APS), 1999-11-01)

  Monosodium glutamate (MSG) elicits a unique taste in humans called umami. Recent molecular studies suggest that glutamate receptors similar to those in brain are present in taste cells, but their precise role in taste ...

• Taste Receptor Cells Express pH-Sensitive Leak K+ Channels 

  Lin, Weihong; Burks, C. A.; Hansen, D. R.; Kinnamon, S. C.; Gilbertson, T. A. (American Physiological Society (APS), 2004-11-01)

  Two-pore domain K+ channels encoded by genes KCNK1-17 (K2p1-17) play important roles in regulating cell excitability. We report here that rat taste receptor cells (TRCs) highly express TASK-2 (KCNK5; K2p5.1), and to a much ...

• Odors Detected by Mice Deficient in Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel Subunit A2 Stimulate the Main Olfactory System 

  Lin, Weihong; Arellano, Julie; Slotnick, Burton; Restrepo, Diego (Society for Neuroscience, 2004-04-07)

  It is believed that odor transduction in the mammalian main olfactory system only involves the cAMP-signaling pathway. Here, we report on odor responsiveness in mice with a disrupted cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channel ...

• Olfactory neurons expressing transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5) are involved in sensing semiochemicals 

  Lin, Weihong; Margolskee, Robert; Donnert, Gerald; Hell, Stefan W.; Restrepo, Diego (PNAS, 2007-02-13)

  Olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) in the main olfactory epithelium respond to environmental odorants. Recent studies reveal that these OSNs also respond to semiochemicals such as pheromones and that main olfactory input ...

• TRPM5-expressing microvillous cells in the main olfactory epithelium 

  Lin, Weihong; Ezekwe, Ejiofor AD Jr; Zhao, Zhen; Liman, Emily R; Restrepo, Diego (BMC, 2008-11-24)

  Background The main olfactory epithelium (MOE) in the nasal cavity detects a variety of air borne molecules that provide information regarding the presence of food, predators and other relevant social and environmental ...

• Accessory olfactory bulb function is modulated by input from the main olfactory epithelium 

  Slotnick, Burton; Restrepo, Diego; Schellinck, Heather; Archbold, Georgina; Price, Stephen; Lin, Weihong (Wiley, 2010-03-16)

  Although it is now established that sensory neurons in both the main olfactory epithelium and the vomeronasal organ may be activated by both general and pheromonal odorants, it remains unclear what initiates sampling by ...

• Diverse populations of intrinsic cholinergic interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb 

  Krosnowski, Kurt; Ashby, Sarah; Sathyanesan, Aaron; Luo, Wangmei; Ogura, Tatsuya; Lin, Weihong (Elsevier, 2012-06-28)

  Cholinergic activities affect olfactory bulb (OB) information processing and associated learning and memory. However, the presence of intrinsic cholinergic interneurons in the OB remains controversial. As a result, ...

• Expression profile of G-protein βγ subunit gene transcripts in the mouse olfactory sensory epithelia 

  Sathyanesan, Aaron; Feijoo, Adrian A.; Mehta, Saloni T.; Nimarko, Akua F.; Lin, Weihong (Frontiers Media, 2013-06-04)

  Heterotrimeric G-proteins mediate a variety of cellular functions, including signal transduction in sensory neurons of the olfactory system. Whereas the Gα subunits in these neurons are well characterized, the gene transcript ...

• Activity Dependent Modulation of Granule Cell Survival in the Accessory Olfactory Bulb at Puberty 

  Oboti, Livio; Trova, Sara; Schellino, Roberta; Marraudino, Marilena; Harris, Natalie R.; Abiona, Olubukola M.; Stampar, Mojca; Lin, Weihong; Peretto, Paolo (Frontiers Media, 2020-05-23)

  The vomeronasal system (VNS) is specialized in the detection of salient chemical cues triggering social and neuroendocrine responses. Such responses are not always stereotyped, instead, they vary depending on age, sex, and ...

• Evolution as a Guide to Designing xeno Amino Acid Alphabets 

  Mayer-Bacon, Christopher; Agboha, Neyiasuo; Muscalli, Mickey; Freeland, Stephen (MDPI, 2021-03-10)

  Here, we summarize a line of remarkably simple, theoretical research to better understand the chemical logic by which life’s standard alphabet of 20 genetically encoded amino acids evolved. The connection to the theme of ...

• Transcriptional rewiring of the GcrA/CcrM bacterial epigenetic regulatory system in closely related bacteria 

  Adhikari, Satish; Erill, Ivan; CurtisI, Patrick D. (PLOS, 2021-03-11)

  Transcriptional rewiring is the regulation of different target genes by orthologous regulators in different organisms. While this phenomenon has been observed, it has not been extensively studied, particularly in core ...

• Cytoskeletal proteins with N-terminal signal peptides: plateins in the ciliate Euplotes define a new family of articulins 

  Kloetzel, John A.; Baroin-Tourancheau, Anne; Miceli, Cristina; Barchetta, Sabrina; Farmar, James; Banerjee, Deben; Fleury-Aubusson, Anne (The Company of Biologists, 2002-12-18)

  Protistan cells employ a wide variety of strategies to reinforce and give pattern to their outermost cortical layers. Whereas some use common cytoskeletal elements such as microtubules, others are based on novel cytoskeletal ...

• Toxoplasma gondii: further studies on the subpellicular network 

  Lemgruber, Leandro; Kloetzel, John A; Souza, Wanderley de; Vommaro, Rossiane C (Scielo, 2009-08)

  The association of the pellicle with cytoskeletal elements in Toxoplasma gondii allows this parasite to maintain its mechanical integrity and makes possible its gliding motility and cell invasion. The inner membrane complex ...

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