Pathway for taste sensation

• When molecules bind with taste receptors, it depolarizes the membrane of taste cells.
• Taste cells are innervated by bipolar neuron
• Neurons are mediating taste sensation through glossopharyngeal and facial nerves present in distal and geniculate ganglia
• Central process of ganglias synapse with neuron of nucleus of solitary tract.
• Solitary nucleus in medulla oblongata give rise to tract called solitariothalmic tract.
• This tract ends in thalamus
• This conducts to cerebral cortex and now we can sense the Taste.