Sentences with phrase «saccharin activates»
Previous studies of the two sweeteners had shown that saccharin activates the bitter receptor subtypes 31 and 43.
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Previous studies of the two sweeteners had shown that saccharin alone activates the subtypes TAS2R31 and TAS2R43, and cyclamate tickles TAS2R1 and TAS2R38.
In this case, though, the amount of saccharin required to block the receptors that cyclamate activates would have bitter effects on its own.
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.
The reverse was true, too: Saccharin blocked TAS2R1 — one of the bitter receptors that cyclamate activates.