Sweet taste-sensing receptors expressed in pancreatic β-cells: Sweet molecules act as biased agonists

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-19

  Kojima, Itaru ^a   Nakagawa, Yuko ^a   Ohtsu, Yoshiaki ^a   Medina, Anya ^a   Nagasawa, Masahiro ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biased agonist; Calcium; Cyclic AMP; Insulin; Sweet taste receptor; Cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975726301     PISSN: 2093596X     EISSN: 20935978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3803/EnM.2014.29.1.12     Document Type: Review

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