The human taste receptor hTAS2R14 responds to a variety of different bitter compounds

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 319, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 479-485

  Behrens, Maik ^a   Brockhoff, Anne ^a   Kuhn, Christina ^a   Bufe, Bernd ^a   Winnig, Marcel ^a   Meyerhof, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

( ) Thujone; Bitter taste; Heterologous expression; hTAS2R; In situ hybridisation; Picrotoxinin

Indexed keywords

ABSINTHOL; NEUROTOXIN; PICROTOXININ;

ABSINTHE; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TASTE BUD;

HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MONOTERPENES; PICROTOXIN; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 2642511376     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.05.019     Document Type: Article

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