News tagged with taste receptors
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 ...
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Food peptides activate bitter taste receptors
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Jan 22, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Monell Center and Tokyo University of Agriculture have used a novel molecular method to identify chemical compounds from common foods that activate human bitter taste receptors.
Nicotine activates more than just the brain's pleasure pathways
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Duke University Medical System researchers have discovered there are differing taste pathways for nicotine, which could provide a new approach for future smoking-cessation products.
Nicotine Activates More than Just the Brain’s Pleasure Pathways
Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University Medical System researchers have discovered there are differing taste pathways for nicotine, which could provide a new approach for future smoking-cessation products.
Like sweets? You're more like a fruit fly than you think
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Mar 17, 2008 |
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According to researchers at the Monell Center, fruit flies are more like humans in their responses to many sweet tastes than are almost any other species.
From delicious to death: Understanding taste
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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Despite the significance of taste to both human gratification and survival, a basic understanding of this primal sense is still unfolding.
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 ...
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 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 ...
Airway cells use 'tasting' mechanism to detect and clear harmful substances
Jul 24, 2009 |
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The same mechanism that helps you detect bad-tasting and potentially poisonous foods may also play a role in protecting your airway from harmful substances, according to a study by scientists at the University ...
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