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Taste receptors in the human tongue

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Taste buds are clusters of receptor cells and supporting cells inside special epithelial papillae. One type, a circular papilla, is shown in the section here. The tongue has about 5,000 taste buds, each enclosing as many as 150 taste receptor cells.
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