Umami taste responses are mediated by α-transducin and α-gustducin

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 35, 2004, Pages 7674-7680

  He, Wei ^a,f   Yasumatsu, Keiko ^c   Varadarajan, Vijaya ^a   Yamada, Ayako ^c   Lem, Janis ^d   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^c   Margolskee, Robert F ^a,b   Damak, Sami ^a,e  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^f inGenious Targeting Laboratory Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Gustducin; Knock out mice; Signal transduction; Taste; Transducin; Umami

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GUSTDUCIN; DENATONIUM BENZOATE; DNA; GLUTAMATE POTASSIUM; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; QUININE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENOTYPE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWEETNESS; TASTE;

ANIMALS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; CROSSES, GENETIC; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENOTYPE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; GLUTAMATES; GUANIDINES; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; QUININE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; SUCROSE; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 4444262377     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2441-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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