Partial rescue of taste responses of α-gustducin null mice by transgenic expression of α-transducin

Chemical Senses

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 719-727

  He, Wei ^a,b   Danilova, Vicktoria ^c   Zou, Shiying ^a   Hellekant, Göran ^c   Max, Marianna ^a   Margolskee, Robert F ^a,b   Damak, Sami ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DENATONIUM BENZOATE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUSTDUCIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; QUININE SULFATE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BITTER TASTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEETNESS; TASTE BUD; TASTE PREFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUANIDINES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; QUININE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TRANSDUCIN; TRANSGENES;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0036798864     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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