Functional characterization of bitter-taste receptors expressed in mammalian testis

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-28

  Xu, Jiang ^a   Cao, Jie ^a   Iguchi, Naoko ^a   Riethmacher, Dieter ^b   Huang, Liquan ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Germ cells; Membrane receptors; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; CALCIUM; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DENATONIUM BENZOATE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PROBENECID; PROCAINAMIDE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; SALICIN; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHEMOSENSITIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INGESTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSIDES; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PROBENECID; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TASTE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84871129066     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gas040     Document Type: Article

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