| Literature DB >> 14986650 |
Hiroaki Matsunami1, Hubert Amrein.
Abstract
Sugars and amino acids are mainly associated with desirable taste sensation. A new study using knockout mouse models shows that the detection of various sugars, artificial sweeteners and L-amino acids is exclusively mediated by taste cells that express one or pair-wise combinations of three G protein coupled receptors, T1R1, T1R2 and T1R3Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 14986650
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834