Mammalian bitter taste perception

Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation

Volumn 47, Issue , 2009, Pages 203-220

  Behrens, M ^a   Meyerhof, W ^b  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 65449159720     PISSN: 00801844     EISSN: 18610412     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/400_2008_5     Document Type: Review

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