Sentences with phrase «for sweet receptors»

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Stevia is as much as 400 times sweeter than sugar, but that signal to the taste receptors comes on all at once and lingers for a while, and in that lingering note there is a metallic or licorice - like aftertaste that has proven surprisingly difficult to deal with.

Babies have highly developed taste receptors for sweet foods, so breast milk is especially yummy to infants.

That means that the approach that worked so well for finding the sweet receptor — identifying a likely gene for the receptor, destroying it in mouse embryos, and proving that the resulting mice are unable to taste sweetness — will not work in the search for the salt receptor.

«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.»

To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.

He found more than 30 that code for bitter receptors but only a single receptor devoted to sweet.

Her team analysed the DNA sequence of the gene TAS1R3, which codes for a sweet taste receptor, in 51 primate species, including humans.

7 Scientists believe there are only a few receptor types each for sweet, sour, salty, and umami.

Artificial sweeteners taste sweet because their chemical structure activates receptors on the tongue for sweet taste.

When the sweet receptors in our brain are over-stimulated by sugar - rich diets, the sugar easily overrides our mechanisms for self - control.

Hence, the stimulation of our sweet receptors triggers chain reactions in our body that are specifically tailored for sugar.

Then there's new - fangled sweeteners with side effects: for example, erythritol stimulates your sweet receptors while having zero calories, but is this really safe for humans?

Other than the fact that it's not good for them, cats can't taste sweet as their tongue lacks receptors for it.