BitterX: A tool for understanding bitter taste in humans

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Huang, Wenkang ^a,b   Shen, Qiancheng ^b   Su, Xubo ^b   Ji, Mingfei ^b   Liu, Xinyi ^b   Chen, Yingyi ^b   Lu, Shaoyong ^b   Zhuang, Hanyi ^b   Zhang, Jian ^a,b  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITTER TASTE; CONFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; RECOGNITION; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL DATABASE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; SOFTWARE; TASTE;

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MOLECULAR LIBRARY;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, CHEMICAL; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; SOFTWARE; TASTE;

EID: 84962422602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23450     Document Type: Article

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