A taste receptor or tastant is a type of cellular receptor that facilitates the sensation of taste. When food or other substances enter the mouth, molecules...

one of the five basic tastes. It is characteristic of broths and cooked meats.: 35–36  People taste umami through taste receptors that typically respond...

mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue. Taste, along with the sense of smell...

Taste buds are clusters of taste receptor cells, which are also known as gustatory cells. The taste receptors are located around the small structures...

the taste bud that each express a receptor for the perception of sweet, sour, salty, bitter or umami. Downstream of the taste receptor, the taste cells...

Exteroreceptors include chemoreceptors such as olfactory receptors (smell) and taste receptors, photoreceptors (vision), thermoreceptors (temperature)...

spat out. The neurobiological mechanisms of taste (and aftertaste) signal transduction from the taste receptors in the mouth to the brain have not yet been...

Taste receptor 2 member 38 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS2R38 gene. TAS2R38 is a bitter taste receptor; varying genotypes of TAS2R38...

component of the taste mechanism. Saliva both interacts with and protects the taste receptors in the mouth. Saliva mediates sour and sweet tastes through bicarbonate...

protein-coupled receptor that functions as a taste receptor, mediated by ligands such as PROP and phenylthiocarbamide that bind to the receptor and initiate...

The evolution of bitter taste receptors has been one of the most dynamic evolutionary adaptations to arise in multiple species. This phenomenon has been...

T1R2 - Taste receptor type 1 member 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS1R2 gene. The sweet taste receptor is predominantly formed as a...

additives. The company claimed to have "reverse engineered" human taste and aroma receptors. It was founded by Lubert Stryer and Paul Nevsky in 1998. On 17...

others find pleasant. Association between its taste and several other genes, including a bitter-taste receptor, have also been found. Some people are allergic...

Gustducin is a G protein associated with taste and the gustatory system, found in some taste receptor cells. Research on the discovery and isolation of...

Taste receptor type 1 member 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS1R1 gene. The protein encoded by the TAS1R1 gene is a G protein-coupled...

2004). "Natural selection and molecular evolution in PTC, a bitter-taste receptor gene". American Journal of Human Genetics. 74 (4): 637–46. doi:10.1086/383092...

bioactive constituents that interact with taste receptors on the tongue to temporarily suppress the taste of sweetness. The plant is a climber with leaves...

gustatory (taste) and olfactory (smell) sensations. Within the structure of the lingual papillae are taste buds that contain specialized gustatory receptor cells...

ten minutes. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral...

sites of taste transduction. The tongue is equipped with many taste buds on its dorsal surface, and each taste bud is equipped with taste receptor cells...

quickly generated but shorter-lasting receptor potential. An example of a receptor potential is in a taste bud, where taste is converted into an electrical...

specific receptors located in taste buds such as the amino acid receptor T1R1/T1R3 or other glutamate receptors like the metabotropic receptors (mGluR4...

Taste receptor type 1 member 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TAS1R3 gene. The TAS1R3 gene encodes the human homolog of mouse Sac taste...

While most animals taste buds are located in their mouth, some insects taste receptors are located on their legs and some fish have taste buds along their...

bitter receptors, amplifying the taste of other sweet, bitter and umami tastants. The synergetic effect of the glycosides on the sweet receptor and TRPM5...

a nerve fiber if the chemoreceptor is a specialized cell, such as taste receptors, or an internal peripheral chemoreceptor, such as the carotid bodies...

the intensity of the taste stimulus. Like the olfactory system, the taste system is defined by its specialized peripheral receptors and central pathways...

skin's Merkel cells, pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and the tongue's taste receptor cells. Approximately 90% of the serotonin the human body produces is...

between PTC tasting and dietary differences. Much of the variation in tasting of PTC is associated with polymorphism at the TAS2R38 taste receptor gene. In...