A metabotropic glutamate receptor variant functions as a taste receptor

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113-119

  Chaudhari, Nirupa ^a   Landin, Ana Marie ^a   Roper, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TASTE BUD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; CYCLIC AMP; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FORSKOLIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIONIC ACIDS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RNA, MESSENGER; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033993988     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72053     Document Type: Article

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