Mechanisms of taste transduction

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 506-513

  Kinnamon, Sue C ^a,b   Margolskee, Robert F ^c  

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

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

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; AMINO ACID; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; INORGANIC SALT; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; ION CHANNEL; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; SUGAR;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

EID: 0030219064     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(96)80057-2     Document Type: Article

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