Sentences with phrase «saccharin blocked»

The reverse was true, too: Saccharin blocked TAS2R1 — one of the bitter receptors that cyclamate activates.

Saccharin blocks subtype 1.

Not exact matches

So it's probably the actions of cyclamate at saccharin's bitter receptors that help block the bitterness, Behrens and his colleagues report September 14 in Cell Chemical Biology.

In this case, though, the amount of saccharin required to block the receptors that cyclamate activates would have bitter effects on its own.

It's not too surprising that a sweetener might block some receptor subtypes and stimulate others, he notes, but that saccharin and cyclamate have such clear compatibilities is a lucky chance.

It turns out that saccharin doesn't just activate sweet taste receptors, it also blocks bitter ones — the same bitter taste receptors that cyclamate activates.

In fact, you would need so much saccharin to completely block cyclamate's bitterness that the saccharin's own bitterness would become overwhelming.

It also blocks the bitter receptors that saccharin stimulates.

But saccharin doesn't block the receptor very well.