Discrimination of taste qualities among mouse fungiform taste bud cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4425-4439

  Yoshida, Ryusuke ^a   Miyauchi, Aya ^a   Yasuo, Toshiaki ^a   Jyotaki, Masafumi ^a   Murata, Yoshihiro ^a   Yasumatsu, Keiko ^a   Shigemura, Noriatsu ^a   Yanagawa, Yuchio ^b   Obata, Kunihiko ^c   Ueno, Hiroshi ^d   Margolskee, Robert F ^e   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; DENATONIUM BENZOATE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; GUSTDUCIN; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; QUININE; SACCHARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA GUSTDUCIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; FUNGIFORM TASTE BUD CELL; SOUR TASTE; UMAMI;

ANIMALS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 70450191418     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.175075     Document Type: Article

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