The Role of Bitter and Sweet Taste Receptors in Upper Airway Immunity

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Workman, Alan D ^a,b   Palmer, James N ^a,b   Adappa, Nithin D ^a,b   Cohen, Noam A ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway immune function; Bitter taste receptor; Solitary chemosensory cell; Sweet taste receptor; T2R38; Upper airway immunity

Indexed keywords

BITTER TASTE RECEPTOR; CALCIUM; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; NITRIC OXIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SWEET TASTE RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTOR FAMILY 1 PROTEIN; TASTE RECEPTOR FAMILY 2 MEMBER 38 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL FUNCTION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOLITARY CHEMOSENSORY CELL; TAS1R GENE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; NOSE MUCOSA; TASTE;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; NASAL MUCOSA; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE;

EID: 84944722472     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: 15346315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-015-0571-8     Document Type: Review

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