Sentences with phrase «by bitter taste receptors»

Now, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reveal that the release of AMPs is partially controlled by bitter taste receptors in the upper airway on a cell previously identified in animals and only recently in humans known as solitary chemosensory cells (SCCs).

«But as the bacteria multiply, they consume more glucose, removing the sweet taste receptor «brake» and allowing for release of AMPs by the bitter taste receptors.»

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The product, named MycoZyme, works by «inhibiting bitter taste receptors from binding with a bitter tastant.»

[Deepak Deshpande et al., «Bitter taste receptors on airway smooth muscle bronchodilate by localized calcium signaling and reverse obstruction»]

Like its human counterpart, the cat bitter taste receptor Tas2r43 was activated by bitter compounds aloin (found in the aloe plant) and denatonium (used to deter children and pets from consuming chemicals such as antifreeze) but responded differently to the compounds.

What's more, the action of the bitter receptors is blocked when sweet taste receptors are stimulated by sugars such as glucose.

Now, findings from Monell reveal that a person's sensitivity to bitter taste is shaped not only by which taste genes that person has, but also by how much messenger RNA — the gene's instruction guide that tells a taste cell to build a specific receptor — their cells make.

To do this, they incorporated the gene sequence of each receptor into cultured cells and then probed the cells to determine if they were activated by one or more of 25 different bitter - tasting chemicals.

Researchers start by coaxing cells in culture to activate bitter - taste receptors.

Now, findings from Monell reveal that a person's sensitivity to bitter taste is shaped not only by which taste genes that person has, but also by how much messenger RNA — the gene's instruction guide that tells a taste cell to build a specific receptor — their taste cells make.

The mechanism by which they stimulate boosted digestive capacity is wondrously simple: the bitter taste receptors on our tongue and other areas of the mouth register that a bitter compound has entered your body.