Variability in human bitter taste sensitivity to chemically diverse compounds can be accounted for by differential TAS2R activation

Chemical Senses

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 427-435

  Roura, Eugeni ^a   Aldayyani, Asya ^a   Thavaraj, Pridhuvi ^a   Prakash, Sangeeta ^a   Greenway, Delma ^a   Thomas, Walter G ^a   Meyerhof, Wolfgang ^b   Roudnitzky, Natacha ^b   Foster, Simon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bitter taste; GLMS; Hypertaster; Hypotaster; PROP; TAS2R

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936773536     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjv024     Document Type: Article

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