Sentences with phrase «sweet taste receptors»

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

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.

Taste buds at the tip of the tongue, whose medical term is «fungiform papillae,» contain sweet taste receptors, and past studies show that people with Type 2 diabetes have impaired sweet taste.

«We believe that the complimentary roles of the bitter and sweet taste receptors in these SCCs keeps upper airway colonizing bacteria at optimal levels during periods of relative health,» Cohen says.

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.

This study, published online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggests that sweet taste receptors expressed on SCCs in the upper airway sense bacterial overgrowth and, in turn, control the release of AMPs.

Masuda K, Koizumi A, Nakajima K, Tanaka T, Abe K, Misaka T, Ishiguro M. Characterization of the modes of binding between human sweet taste receptor and low - molecular - weight sweet compounds.

You pop one in your mouth, activating the sweet taste receptors on your taste buds, which then sends a signal to your cerebral cortex.

«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.»

The team also found that compounds that activate the sweet taste receptor (T1R2 / 3) suppressed the release of the AMPs produced by bitter taste receptors, indicating that these receptors have complimentary roles in regulating the innate immune pathway.

Because prior studies have shown that hyperglycemic patients also exhibit elevated nasal glucose levels, it is likely that the sweet taste receptor function we demonstrate here may also contribute to the predisposition of diabetic patients to airway infections.»

This inability reflects damage to an underlying gene for the sweet taste receptor.

The researchers then increased the challenge by creating a follow - up experiment in which they were given a compound that neutralized their sweet taste receptors.