Sentences with phrase «sweet taste receptors in»

«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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

When you eat these foods, the sweet - sensing taste receptors in your large intestine activate the release of hormones that promote insulin secretion and regulate appetite.

All sugars provide their delightful sweet taste by binding to and stimulating the sweet receptors in your tongue.

Low - energy (intense) sweeteners have been used as tools to define the role of intestinal sweet - taste receptors in glucose absorption.