Lack of gurmarin sensitivity of sweet taste receptors innervated by the glossopharyngeal nerve in C57BL mice

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 3 41-3, 1997, Pages

  Ninomiya, Yuzo ^a   Inoue, Masashi ^b   Imoto, Toshiaki ^b   Nakashima, Kiyohito ^b  

^a ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

anterior and posterior tongue regions; mouse taste nerve response; two types of sweet receptors

Indexed keywords

GURMARIN; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD;

EID: 0030903828     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.272.3.r1002     Document Type: Article

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