Chemoreception: Tasting the sweet and the bitter

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1234-1237

  Lindemann, Bernd ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0030266428     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(96)00704-X     Document Type: Article

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