Chromosaponin I stimulates the sugar taste receptor cells of the blowfly, Phormia regina

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 343-349

  Ahamed, Arifa ^a   Tsurumi, Seiji ^a   Ozaki, Mamiko ^b   Amakawa, Taisaku ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blowfly; Chromosaponin I; Electrophysiological response; Phormia regina; Proboscis extension reflex; Soyasaponin I; Sugar taste; Transduction mechanism; Triterpenoid

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSAPONIN 1; SAPONIN; SOYASAPONIN I; SUCROSE; TRITERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; LATENT PERIOD; TASTE BUD;

CALLIPHORIDAE; FABACEAE; HEXAPODA; PHORMIA REGINA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0034092527     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00164-1     Document Type: Article

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