Sentences with phrase «same bitter taste receptors»

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.

Not exact matches

Because scientists have discovered that the same receptors that exist on the tongue to taste bitter substances are also found on the smooth muscle of the lungs.

But, he says, because the researchers used the human bitter taste receptors, it's likely that the same thing happens when a diet drink hits the human tongue.

Yet no matter which tastant enters the mouth or which receptor it attaches to, bitter always tastes the same to us.