Michael Tordoff

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| birth_date = 1956

| birth_place = Bradford, Yorkshire, UK

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| fields = Biology, Genetics

| workplaces = Monell Chemical Senses Center

| alma_mater = UCLA

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| known_for = Work on calcium intake and appetite

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Dr. Michael G. Tordoff is a psychobiologist who worked 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,{{cite book|last=Tordoff|first=MG|title=Chemical Senses: Appetite and Nutrition|year=1991|publisher=Marcel Dekker|location=New York|pages=239–260|editor=Friedman, MI |editor2=Kare, MR |editor3=Tordoff, MG|chapter=Metabolic basis of learned food preferences}} (b) how artificial sweeteners influence appetite and body weight,{{cite journal|last=Tordoff|first=MG|author2=Alleva, AM|title=Effect of drinking soda sweetened with aspartame or high-fructose corn syrup on food intake and body weight|journal=American Journal of Clinical Nutrition|year=1990|volume=51|pages=963–969|pmid=2349932|issue=6|doi=10.1093/ajcn/51.6.963|doi-access=free}} (c) how salt intake is regulated, and (d) how dietary calcium influences salt intake.{{cite journal|last=Tordoff|first=MG|title=The importance of calcium in the control of salt intake|journal=Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews|year=1996|volume=20|issue=1|pages=89–99|doi=10.1016/0149-7634(95)00051-f|pmid=8622834|s2cid=34335132}} Recently, he has been investigating calcium taste and appetite.{{cite journal|last=Tordoff|first=MG|title=Calcium: taste, intake and appetite|journal=Physiological Reviews|year=2001|volume=81|issue=4|pages=1567–1597|doi=10.1152/physrev.2001.81.4.1567|pmid=11581497|s2cid=16168211 }}{{cite book|last=Tordoff|first=MG|title=Calcium in Human Health|year=2005|publisher=Humana Press|location=Totowa, NJ|pages=247–266|author-link=The case for calcium appetite in humans|editor=Weaver, CM |editor2=Heaney, RP}} He is the primary proponent of the notion that calcium is a basic taste, equivalent to sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Dr. Tordoff hosts the Monell Mouse Taste Phenotyping Project. In August 2009, he [http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=1r4vFZo&doc_id=5872&v=KM bicycled across the USA] in 27 days. He is married to, and often collaborates with, Dr. Danielle Reed.

Reference list

Recent publications

{{cite journal | last1 = Cherukuri | first1 = C. M. | last2 = McCaughey | first2 = S. A. | last3 = Tordoff | first3 = M. G. | year = 2011 | title = Comparison of differences between PWD/PhJ and C57BL/6J mice in calcium solution preferences and chorda tympani nerve responses | journal = Physiology & Behavior | volume = 102 | issue = 5| pages = 496–502 | doi=10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.12.024| pmid = 21219921 | pmc = 3049455 }}
{{cite journal | last1 = Tordoff | first1 = M. G. | year = 2010 | title = Taste solution consumption by FHH-Chr nBN consomic rats | journal = Chemical Senses | volume = 35 | issue = 6| pages = 473–489 | doi=10.1093/chemse/bjq038| pmid = 20478838 | pmc = 2885745}}
{{cite journal | last1 = Bachmanov | first1 = A. A. | last2 = Inoue | first2 = M. | last3 = Ji | first3 = H. | last4 = Murata | first4 = Y. | last5 = Tordoff | first5 = M. G. | last6 = Beauchamp | first6 = G. K. | year = 2009 | title = Glutamate taste and appetite in laboratory mice: physiologic and genetic analyses | journal = American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | volume = 90 | issue = 3| pages = 756S–63S | doi=10.3945/ajcn.2009.27462l | pmid=19571213 | pmc=3136004}}
{{cite journal | last1 = De Jonghe | first1 = B. C. | last2 = Lawler | first2 = M. P. | last3 = Horn | first3 = C. C. | last4 = Tordoff | first4 = M. G. | year = 2009 | title = Pica as an adaptive response: Kaolin consumption helps rats recover from chemotherapy-induced illness | journal = Physiology & Behavior | volume = 97 | issue = 1| pages = 87–90 | doi=10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.02.009| pmid = 19419663 | pmc = 2680461 }}
{{cite journal | last1 = Tordoff | first1 = M. G. | last2 = Sandell | first2 = M. A. | year = 2009 | title = Vegetable bitterness is related to calcium content | journal = Appetite | volume = 52 | issue = 2| pages = 498–504 | doi=10.1016/j.appet.2009.01.002| pmid = 19260165 | pmc = 2768385 }}
{{cite journal | last1 = Guenthner | first1 = C. J. | last2 = McCaughey | first2 = S. A. | last3 = Tordoff | first3 = M. G. | last4 = Baird | first4 = J. P. | year = 2008 | title = Licking for taste solutions by potassium-deprived rats: Specificity and mechanisms | journal = BMC Genetics | volume = 93 | issue = 4–5| pages = 937–46 | doi=10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.12.017| pmid = 18255104 | pmc = 2410095 }}
{{cite journal | last1 = Reed | first1 = D. R. | last2 = Lawler | first2 = M. P. | last3 = Tordoff | first3 = M. G. | year = 2008 | title = Reduced body weight is a common effect of gene knockout | journal = BMC Genetics | volume = 9 | page = 4 | doi=10.1186/1471-2156-9-4| pmid = 18182103 | pmc = 2263071 | doi-access = free }}
{{cite journal | last1 = Tordoff | first1 = M. G. | last2 = Shao | first2 = H. | last3 = Alarcón | first3 = L. K. | last4 = Margolskee | first4 = R. F. | last5 = Mosinger | first5 = B. | last6 = Bachmanov | first6 = A. A. | last7 = Reed | first7 = D. R. | last8 = McCaughey | first8 = S. A. | year = 2008 | title = Involvement of T1R3 in calcium-magnesium taste | journal = Physiological Genomics | volume = 34 | issue = 3| pages = 338–48 | doi=10.1152/physiolgenomics.90200.2008| pmid = 18593862 | pmc = 2519964 }}
{{cite journal | last1 = Tordoff | first1 = M. G. | year = 2008 | title = Gene discovery and the genetic basis of calcium consumption | journal = Physiology & Behavior | volume = 94 | issue = 5| pages = 649–59 | doi=10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.04.004 | pmid=18499198 | pmc=2574908}}

External links

[http://monell.org/Faculty/tordoff.htm Dr. Tordoff's page at the Monell Chemical Senses Center website]
[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_ArticleListID=772044089&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b684d8a183ad709add3e4fac60d73068 The Elsevier Science Direct Directory of the works of Dr. Tordoff]

Category:Living people

Category:1956 births

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