Cre-mediated recombination in Tas2r131 cells-A unique way to explore bitter taste receptor function inside and outside of the taste system

Chemical Senses

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 627-639

  Voigt, Anja ^a,b   Hübner, Sandra ^a   Döring, Linda ^a   Perlach, Nathalie ^a   Hermans Borgmeyer, Irm ^b   Boehm, Ulrich ^b,c   Meyerhof, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bitter; Cre recombinase; Gene targeting; Knock in; Taste receptor cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GUSTDUCIN; CELL PROTEIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; TYPE 2 TASTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GUSTDUCIN; INTEGRASE; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2; TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CELL COUNT; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SENSORY ANALYSIS; TASTE BUD; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TASTE BUDS; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 84946727777     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjv049     Document Type: Article

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