The taste of monosodium glutamate: Membrane receptors in taste buds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3817-3826

  Chaudhari, Nirupa ^a,d   Yang, Hui ^a   Lamp, Cynthia ^a   Delay, Eugene ^b   Cartford, Claire ^b   Than, Trang ^b   Roper, Stephen ^c,d  

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

^b REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

chemosensory; glutamate receptors; gustation; rats; taste buds; umami

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE SODIUM; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMORECEPTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030006520     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-12-03817.1996     Document Type: Article

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