Taste Receptor

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
TR
Pronunciation
/teɪst riˈsɛptər/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. Swabs were also taken of the volunteers'cheek cells so that researchers could determine whether they carried none, one, or two'sensitive'copies of the taste receptor gene that allows taste of PTC.
  2. They screened these by assuming that a taste receptor would only be found in a small number of tissue types ( specifically tongue taste cells ). That whittled the list down to900.
  3. A model for taste receptor cells was further developed.
  4. Taste receptor cells immobilization on chips was profoundly studied.
  5. As a transmembrane glycoprotein, CD36 is multi-functional cell membrane receptor. As the fat taste receptor, the study of obesity and diseases related to excessive fat intake has an important significance.

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