Endogenous gustatory responses and gene expression profile of stably proliferating human taste cells isolated from fungiform papillae

Chemical Senses

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 359-377

  Hochheimer, Andreas ^a,b   Krohn, Michael ^a   Rudert, Kerstin ^a   Riedel, Katja ^a   Becker, Sven ^c   Thirion, Christian ^d   Zinke, Holger ^a  

^a BRAIN AG   (Germany)

^b Amgen Research GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d SIRION BIOTECH GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bitter taste; Gustatory signaling; Human taste cell biology; Primary taste cell; Taste modulation; Taste receptor

Indexed keywords

ARISTOLOCHIC ACID; CALCIUM; CD36 ANTIGEN; FATTY ACID; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; SACCHARIN; ARISTOLOCHIC ACID I; BENZYL ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCOSIDE; OXTR PROTEIN, HUMAN; SALICIN; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 1; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CD36 GENE; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRAIN HTC 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OXTR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANTIGENS, CD36; ARISTOLOCHIC ACIDS; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSIDES; HUMANS; PHENYLTHIOUREA; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SACCHARIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 84898415657     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bju009     Document Type: Article

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