Taste responses to sweet stimuli in α-Gustducin knockout and wild-type mice

Chemical Senses

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 573-580

  Danilova, Vicktoria ^a   Damak, Sami ^b   Margolskee, Robert F ^b,c   Hellekant, Göran ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

gustducin; Chorda tympani; Glossopharyngeal; Knockout mice; Sweet taste; Two bottle preference

Indexed keywords

ACESULFAME; ALPHA GUSTDUCIN; AMINO ACID; DEXTRO PHENYLALANINE; FRUCTOSE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NC 00174; NEOTAME; PHENETHYLUREA; PROLINE; SACCHARIN; SC 45647; SWEETENING AGENT; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWEETNESS; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PHENYLUREA COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS; TASTE; TRANSDUCIN;

CHORDA;

EID: 33747851474     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjj062     Document Type: Article

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