The tongue in your lung that fights asthma

摘要

Taste receptors for bitter flavours have been discovered in lung tissue. What' s more, they respond to bitter substances by dilating the airways of asthmatic mice, paving the way for a different approach to asthma treatment. 'They opened up the bronchi much better than beta-agonists, the standard therapies for asthma," says Stephen Liggett at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, head of the group who made the discovery.