The receptors and cells for mammalian taste

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7117, 2006, Pages 288-294

  Chandrashekar, Jayaram ^a   Hoon, Mark A ^b   Ryba, Nicholas J P ^b   Zuker, Charles S ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; RECEPTION QUALITY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

RECEPTORS; STEREOTYPIC RESPONSES; TASTE CODING; TASTE QUALITY;

CELLS;

MAMMAL; TASTE;

CELL TYPE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE BUD; TONGUE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33751084573     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05401     Document Type: Review

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