European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 10, 1986. The e stars and stripes Page 1.7 Are really not so hot by Robert Cooke Cox news service a none addicted to Jafa Pono peppers. Nous trial strength hot sauce arid in Orother mexican food should beware people Don l realize that when they eat spicy hot foods they re actually burning the insides 6t their Mouths warns John Kinnamon. Heal tissue damage marked by inflammation and perhaps by injured taste buds often follows exposure to spicy foods says Kinnamon who does research on lasts buds at the University of Colorado. When you eat something hoi say a Chili Peppar a chemical called substance p is released which causes an inflammatory response on the skin inside the Mouth and nose he says. Substance a released by injured or irritated cells acts As a chemical messenger to trigger inflammation which begins the process of tissue Healing and replacement. There Are Jolson things that can cause substance p releases pungent substances like menthol camphor and. Wasabi a Green Oriental Mustard Kinnamon said. He added that i he chemicals from. Ultra spicy loads such As Capsicum in chill peppers actually cause Burns such As those from hot drinks wounding the cells in the Mouth. As with touch sensitive areas of tha skin the nerve endings in the surface skin of the Mouth Send pain signals to the brain. Fortunately nature has engineered our taste buds so May Are constantly being replaced he says. The taste Bud cells you have today Are entirely do Lerent from the ones you had two weeks like the ayes ears and nose taste buds Are sense organs that help living creatures Cope with their environment. Unlike eyes and ears however taste buds have not been studied extensively \ tha study of taste is Back in he dark Ages compared to what we know about sight and hearing Ken Damon says it s hard Lor me to understand Why so Little has been done with taste buds. They Are a great developmental system. All the cells Are replaced every 12 Days or to. It s a vary dynamic system the rapid regeneration of taste buds allows researchers to see How cells change while passing through different stages in heir life Cycle. Very Early in life Lor example taste cells Are dare coloured bul they gradually lose color As they age. Kinnamon and his colleagues including his Wile. Or. Sue Kinnamon and or. Stephen Roper both at Colorado state University found recently thai dark taste cells have Dit Lerent types of connections with the nerve fibres that Send taste information to the brain there Are specific cell types filch. Lend to form synapses with a Given nerve fiber he says. will have synapses from five dark cells another May have synapses from Light cells. I be found no instances where both Light and dark cells have synapses onto the same nerve the finding suggests that a Ste buds do different things at deferent times. In their lifespan yielding clues to the Way the taste Syslo is organize also because of their Short lifespans taste cells May help scientists understand aging in other cells and perhaps the whole aging process itself. Kinnamon Saya experiments with taste cells May show How various forms of abuse such As Contact with Strong chemicals influence aging. We Hope to land Oul whether by eating certain foods we re telling our cells to increase the rate at which they produce replacements and if we be increased the cells aging although the exact number of table buds in a person s Mouth is unknown. Kinnamon says there Are probably thousands each consisting of 50 to 150 individual cells. Right now we re trying to Fina other ways Lor looking at How these cells differ from each other at different stages of growth he says. The researchers Are looking for example to see if taste Bud cells differ in. Ways other than color As they mature grow old and die. In collaboration with or. Thomas e. Finger at the University of Colorado school of Medicine Kinnamon already has Lound that the surface molecules on taste cells change with age. Differences in their surfaces suggest the cells become sensitive to different things at. Different times such As different Javors bitterness saltiness or sweetness. This is wild speculation but i think a cell at one stage of development May be More sensitive to a Given stimulus Strart at another stage of development Kinnamon says. Erma Bombeck sunday is the big gams.,. The world Seri Esol motherhood. It s the Day we All line up to claim the spoils of our the All stars. There Are the. Stepmothers who Are sent into the game at halftime to try and pull a win Oul of the lire. There Are tha single mothers who hit the ground running desperate to hit Avery Ball that la pitched and touch every base. There Are tha adoptive mothers who Are Pinch hitters when the scheduled Batter does t show up. Of course there s the perennial favorite the Raal which is really redundant warming up in tha bullpen Are lha younger women Resh from school or careers who look to the game with apprehension wondering if they can make it in the big leagues.,. Or Umhey la like it once they get there i be covered this team Lor More than 20 years. Don t fal heir coolness fool you. See that Mother Over there she s from Northlake Iii she should have retired from the game years ago but her daughter left her husband when he refused to change the baby so the daughter went to work and guess who is Back at Bat bringing up tha baby. There s the Mother from Denver colo., who can t explain her slump in her words i raised six children. Same House same rules for All. Have Lour paying their own Way and living a Good life., but two Are in prison there s the Mother from Wapakoneta Ohio who tries to ignore the chant from the stands you re not my Mother you re not my Mother you re not my Mother she just tries to concentrate on raising three stepchildren by jelling them i Don l hate you. I hate the Way you there s an entire Section of mothers in the stands who Root for the Laam. But never play. Thay want desperately to be in the game but because of personal circumstances placed their babies in the arms of other woman to raise. They never miss an All Star occasion like today to reflect and to relive lha pain of being on the sidelines there Are mascots of course who hang around to keep the level of humor High. Like the Mother from Minneapolis who had five children was crippled at tha age of 14 with the toss of a leg and who had All Home deliveries and said having babies. Is no big Deal. Raising them is. The Mother from Hollywood call., is a Rookie who gave birth to a Premie who was epileptic and still has a lot of problems. My husband and i Are members of narcotics Anonymous and have been clean for 10 years. We feel 24 hours a everyone on this learn has something in common. They Veall struck out hit Home runs stolen a Lew bases been at the top and at the Bottom of the league been pulled out of retirement and suffered burnout. Bul mostly they feel 24 hours a Day. Cd ii .01 an Tel Titi s
