Seeing and smelling food prepares the mouse liver for digestion
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 11:01
in Biology & Nature
The sight or smell of something delicious is often enough to get your mouth watering, but the physiological response to food perception may go well beyond your salivary glands. New research in mice shows that the sight and smell of food alone may be enough to kickstart processes in the liver that promote the digestion of food. The study appears November 15 in the journal Cell.