News tagged with taste receptor
Red pandas reveal an unexpected (artificial) sweet tooth
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Monell Center report that the red panda is the first non-primate mammal to display a liking for the artificial sweetener aspartame. This unexpected affinity for an artificial sweetener may reflect structural ...
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Common herbicides and fibrates block nutrient-sensing receptor found in gut and pancreas
Oct 09, 2009 |
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According to new research from the Monell Center and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, certain common herbicides and lipid-lowering fibrate drugs act in humans to block T1R3, a nutrient-sensing taste receptor also present ...
Variants of 'umami' taste receptor contribute to our individualized flavor worlds
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Using a combination of sensory, genetic, and in vitro approaches, researchers from the Monell Center confirm that the T1R1-T1R3 taste receptor plays a role in human umami (amino acid) taste.
Sour comes after a lemon has gone
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 06, 2008 |
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The research group led by Professor Makoto Tominaga and Research Assistant Professor Hitoshi Inada (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan) found that a sour taste receptor, PKD1L3-PKD2L1 channel complex, ...
Discovery of 'sugar sensor' in intestine could benefit diabetes
Aug 21, 2007 |
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Diabetes patients could benefit from new research at the University of Liverpool that has identified a molecule in the intestine that can ‘taste’ the sugar content of the diet.
Wasabi receptor can sense ammonia that causes pain
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Japanese research group, led by Prof Makoto Tominaga of National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan, found that the receptor for hot taste of WASABI, Japanese horseradish usually eaten with Sushi, can sense alkaline ...
That tastes -- sweet? Sour? No, it's definitely calcium!
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Chemists in Philadelphia are reporting a discovery that could expand the palate of human tastes — sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory — to include a new taste sensation that they term "calcium."
Sour taste make you pucker? It may be in your genes
Jul 11, 2007 |
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Scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center report that genes play a large role in determining individual differences in sour taste perception. The findings may help researchers identify the still-elusive taste receptor ...
Beer: more a brain than a taste thing
Sep 13, 2007 |
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A U.S. study suggests differing zests for beer might reveal more about alcohol's effect on the brain than inherent differences in taste sensitivity.
Flies avoid a plant's poison using a newly identified taste mechanism
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Many plants protect themselves from hungry animals by producing toxic chemicals. In turn, animals rely on detecting the presence of these harmful chemicals to avoid consuming dangerous plant material. A paper, published in ...
Your gut has taste receptors
Aug 20, 2007 |
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Researchers in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified taste receptors in the human intestines. The taste receptor T1R3 and the taste G protein gustducin are critical to sweet taste ...
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