Abstract
The innervation of taste buds, both in well-fed and starved frogs and its relation to mucopolysaccharide secretion has been investigated. In well-fed frogs the taste buds receive numerous intact nerve fibers, whereas in starved frogs the nerve fibers are present, but in various stages of degeneration. There is a significant reduction in the width of taste buds, the height of nonciliated cylinder cells, and the height of basal cells of taste buds in starved frogs compared to the taste buds of well-fed frogs. It is suggested that the nervous influence plays an important role in nonciliated cylinder cells which secrete acid mucopolysaccharide.
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