Bitter taste receptors and human bitter taste perception

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1501-1509

  Behrens, M ^a   Meyerhof, W ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bitter taste receptor; G protein coupled receptor; Gustatory system; Sensory physiology; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Tongue

Indexed keywords

STRYCHNINE;

ASSOCIATION; BITTER TASTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GOITER; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; SCIENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASTE BUD; THYROID DISEASE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

MAMMALIA; STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA;

EID: 33746639193     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-006-6113-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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