Taste transductions in taste receptor cells: Basic tastes and moreover

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 2684-2692

  Iwata, Shusuke ^a   Yoshida, Ryusuke ^a   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell type; Fat taste and calcium taste; Taste quality; Taste receptor; Transduction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FATTY ACID; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 4;

ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CALCIUM TASTE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL TYPE; CHORDA TYMPANI; FAT TASTE; FRUIT RIPENING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORGANOLEPTIC PROPERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALTY TASTE; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUR TASTE; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE BUD; UMAMI TASTE; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 84903696086     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/13816128113199990575     Document Type: Article

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