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Michael Tordoff

Michael Tordoff

American geneticist

Dr. Michael G. Tordoff is a psychobiologist working at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. His research deals with the genetics and physiology of taste and nutrition. His early work addressed (a) how and what animals learn about the value of their food,[1] (b) how artificial sweeteners influence appetite and body weight,[2] (c) how salt intake is regulated, and (d) how dietary calcium influences salt intake.[3] Recently, he has been investigating calcium taste and appetite.[4][5] He is the primary proponent of the notion that calcium is a basic taste, equivalent to sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

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Dr. Tordoff hosts the Monell Mouse Taste Phenotyping Project. In August 2009, he bicycled across the USA in 27 days. He is married to, and often collaborates with, Dr. Danielle Reed.

Reference list

  1. [1]
    Tordoff, MG (1991). "Metabolic basis of learned food preferences". In Friedman, MI; Kare, MR; Tordoff, MG (eds.). Chemical Senses: Appetite and Nutrition. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 239–260.
  2. [2]
    Tordoff, MG; Alleva, AM (1990). "Effect of drinking soda sweetened with aspartame or high-fructose corn syrup on food intake and body weight". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 51 (6): 963–969. doi:10.1093/ajcn/51.6.963. PMID 2349932.
  3. [3]
    Tordoff, MG (1996). "The importance of calcium in the control of salt intake". Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 20 (1): 89–99. doi:10.1016/0149-7634(95)00051-f. PMID 8622834. S2CID 34335132.
  4. [4]
    Tordoff, MG (2001). "Calcium: taste, intake and appetite". Physiological Reviews. 81 (4): 1567–1597. doi:10.1152/physrev.2001.81.4.1567. PMID 11581497. S2CID 16168211.
  5. [5]
    Tordoff, MG (2005). Weaver, CM; Heaney, RP (eds.). Calcium in Human Health. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. pp. 247–266.

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