ROCKVILLE, MD – In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses "sweet taste" receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet ...

Taste information sent by ornithine as its concentration increases, whether pleasant or unpleasant, is likely mediated by the conventional amino acid receptor T1R1/T1R3 rather than GPRC6A. Thus, umami ...

IN an attempt to identify the feature common to various and seemingly unrelated compounds which taste sweet, we suggested 1 that the saporous unit of all sweet tasting compounds was a bifunctional ...

For the male genetic materials to reach and fertilize the egg, spermatozoa must contend with numerous environmental changes in a complex and highly sophisticated process from generation in the testis, ...

In the tongue, sugars are detected via taste T1R2 and T1R3 receptors and signalled via the taste G-protein α-gustducin (Gα gust) and the transient receptor potential ion channel, TRPM5. These taste ...

GLUT5 is responsible for sensing fructose. Present on only L cells, sweet receptors (T1R2/T1R3) also sense glucose. Short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) are derived from microbial fermentation, and are ...

52 These same regions were found to express the corresponding gene products that form the heterodimeric T1R2/T1R3 and T1R1/T1R3 sweet and L-amino-acid taste G-protein-coupled receptors.