Biochemical and transgenic analysis of gustducin's role in bitter and sweet transduction

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1996, Pages 173-184

  Wong, G T ^a   Ruiz Avila, L ^a   Ming, D ^a   Gannon, K S ^a   Margolskee, R F ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; CATTLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE; TASTE BUD; TONGUE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; BLASTOCYST; CHIMERA; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FRACTIONATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWEETNESS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

CYCLIC GMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUSTDUCIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PROTEIN; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EID: 0030429166     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1996.061.01.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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