Sweet taste transduction in hamster: Sweeteners and cyclic nucleotides depolarize taste cells by reducing a K+ current

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1256-1263

  Cummings, Thomas A ^b   Daniels, Christi ^b   Kinnamon, Sue C ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 (4 CHLOROPHENYLTHIO) CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; DIBUTYRYL CYCLIC GMP; POTASSIUM ION; SACCHARIN; SWEETENING AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND MESSENGER; SWEETNESS; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0029942483     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.3.1256     Document Type: Article

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