Involvement of multiple taste receptors in umami taste: Analysis of gustatory nerve responses in metabotropic glutamate receptor 4 knockout mice

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 593, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1021-1034

  Yasumatsu, Keiko ^a   Manabe, Tomohiro ^a   Yoshida, Ryusuke ^a   Iwatsuki, Ken ^b   Uneyama, Hisayuki ^c   Takahashi, Ichiro ^a   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^c AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 4; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 1;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; UMAMI; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; INNERVATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE; TONGUE;

ANIMALS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; TASTE; TONGUE;

EID: 84923395064     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.284703     Document Type: Article

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