Evaluation of the bitterness of green tea catechins by a cell-based assay with the human bitter taste receptor hTAS2R39

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 405, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 620-625

  Narukawa, Masataka ^a   Noga, Chiaki ^a   Ueno, Yohei ^b   Sato, Tsutomu ^a   Misaka, Takumi ^b   Watanabe, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bitter taste; Bitter taste receptors; Catechin; Green tea; HTAS2R39

Indexed keywords

EPICATECHIN; EPICATECHIN GALLATE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL ASSAY; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SENSORY EVALUATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; TEA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CATECHIN; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TASTE; TEA;

EID: 79951959143     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.01.079     Document Type: Article

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