Biochemical and physiological evidence that calmodulin is involved in the taste response of the sugar receptor cells of the blowfly, Phormia regina

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 497-504

  Seno, Keiji ^a   Nakamura, Tadashi ^b   Ozaki, Mamiko ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

CNG channel; Contact chemoreceptor; Electrophysiology; Gustatory; Insect; Transduction

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; CALMODULIN; CALMODULIN INHIBITOR; CYCLIC GMP DERIVATIVE; N (6 AMINOHEXYL) 5 CHLORO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONAMIDE; SUCROSE; SUGAR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STIMULATION; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FLY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; RECORDING; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CALMODULIN; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; CHEMORECEPTORS; CYCLIC GMP; DIPTERA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ION CHANNELS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUCROSE; TASTE BUDS;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; PHORMIA REGINA;

EID: 23844444237     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bji042     Document Type: Article

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