Changes in outward K+ currents in response to two types of sweeteners in sweet taste transduction of gerbil taste cells

Chemical Senses

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 163-169

  Uchida, Yoshinori ^a   Sato, Toshihide ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; IONOMYCIN; IONOPHORE; SACCHARIN; SWEETENING AGENT; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; GERBIL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CYCLIC AMP; GERBILLINAE; INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE; ION TRANSPORT; IONOMYCIN; IONOPHORES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PLANT PROTEINS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SACCHARIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE;

EID: 0030946280     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/22.2.163     Document Type: Article

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