Validation of edible taste strips for identifying PROP taste recognition thresholds

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1177-1183

  Desai, Hetvi ^a   Smutzer, Gregory ^a   Coldwell, Susan E ^b   Griffith, James W ^c  

^a Temple University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

6 n propylthiouracil; Bitter taste; Gustation; taste blindness; Taste test

Indexed keywords

PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RECEPTOR; TAS2R38 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDIBLE TASTE STRIP; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE AIRFLOW; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE THRESHOLD; URACIL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958251076     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21757     Document Type: Article

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