Bitter taste receptors and their cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1170, Issue , 2009, Pages 111-115

  Behrens, Maik ^a   Reichling, Claudia ^a   Batram, Claudia ^a   Brockhoff, Anne ^a   Meyerhof, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bitter taste receptor; G protein coupled receptors; TAS2R

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PROPYLTHIOURACIL;

BITTER TASTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAS2R GENE; TASTE;

EID: 68649098772     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03897.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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