Transduction for sweet taste of saccharin may involve both inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and cAMP pathways in the fungiform taste buds in C57BL mice

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 90-98

  Nakashima, Kiyohito ^a   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^a  

^a ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bitter taste; Chemoreception; Cyclic adenosine monophosphate; Inositol 1,4,5 trisphosphate; Second messenger; Sweet taste; Taste transduction

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; DENATONIUM BENZOATE; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PRONASE; QUININE; SACCHARIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALIA; CHORDA; CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

EID: 0032799297     PISSN: 10158987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016305     Document Type: Article

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