Gustation genetics: Sweet gustducin!

Chemical Senses

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 549-550

  Reed, Danielle R ^a   Margolskee, Robert F ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Genotype; Phenotype; Sweet

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUSTDUCIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GNAT3 GENE; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; SWEETNESS; TAS1R3 GENE; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SUCROSE; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 77955871810     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq059     Document Type: Article

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