How taste works: Cells, receptors and gustatory perception

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 699-716

  Kikut Ligaj, Dariusz ^a   Trzcielinska Lorych, Joanna ^b  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Poland)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Activation of taste receptor cells; Basic taste qualities; Bitter; Calcium homeostasis modulator 1 channel; CALHM1; ENaC; Epithelial sodium channels; Extra oral tissue TAS2Rs; Sweet and umami taste receptors; TASRs; Taste buds; Taste papillae; Taste perception; Types of cells located in the taste buds

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHANNEL; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 1; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; SALTINESS; SATIETY; SOUR TASTE; STOMACH EMPTYING; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE BUD; UMAMI; ANIMAL; EPITHELIUM; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHANNELS; TASTE BUDS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84961244099     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: 16891392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cmble-2015-0042     Document Type: Article

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