Taste transduction: Linkage between molecular mechanisms and psychophysics

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 153-159

  Kinnamon, Sue C ^a  

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

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EID: 0030513706     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-3293(96)00009-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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