The bad taste of medicines: Overview of basic research on bitter taste

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1225-1246

  Mennella, Julie A ^a   Spector, Alan C ^b   Reed, Danielle R ^a   Coldwell, Susan E ^c  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Bitter taste; Children; Drug compliance; Electronic tongues; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BASIC RESEARCH; BEHAVIOR; BITTER TASTE; BRAIN; ENCAPSULATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICINE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; SATIETY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS; SUCKLING; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; TASTE; TASTE BUD; TONGUE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANIMAL MODELS; BITTER TASTE; CHILDREN; DRUG COMPLIANCE; ELECTRONIC TONGUES; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FLAVORING AGENTS; HUMANS; INFANT; PERCEPTION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SUCROSE; TABLETS; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 84882909947     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2013.06.007     Document Type: Review

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