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gustatory receptor activity

Known as: gustatory receptor, taste receptor activity 
Combining with soluble compounds to initiate a change in cell activity. These receptors are responsible for the sense of taste. [GOC:dph]
National Institutes of Health

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Taste Buds

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detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of taste

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2017
2017
Heterogeneity in the Drosophila gustatory receptor complexes that detect aversive compounds
Animals must detect aversive compounds to survive. Bitter taste neurons express heterogeneous combinations of bitter receptors… 
2016
2016
Bitter-sensitive gustatory receptor neuron responds to chemically diverse insect repellents in the common malaria mosquito Anopheles quadrimaculatus
Female mosquitoes feed on blood from animal hosts to obtain nutritional resources used for egg production. These contacts… 
Review
2015
Review
2015
Oral and intestinal sweet and fat tasting: impact of receptor polymorphisms and dietary modulation for metabolic disease.
The human body has evolved with a disposition for nutrient storage, allowing for periods of irregular food availability and… 
2013
2013
Gustatory receptor neuron responds to DEET and other insect repellents in the yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti
Three gustatory receptor neurons were characterized for contact chemoreceptive sensilla on the labella of female yellow-fever… 
2010
2010
Mutants in phospholipid signaling attenuate the behavioral response of adult Drosophila to trehalose.
In Drosophila melanogaster, gustatory receptor genes (Grs) encode putative G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that are expressed… 
2006
2006
Pleiotropic fitness effects of the Tre1-Gr5a region in Drosophila melanogaster
The abundance of transposable elements and DNA repeat sequences in mammalian genomes raises the question of whether such… 
2004
2004
A Single-Amino-Acid Change of the Gustatory Receptor Gene , Gr 5 a , Has a Major Effect on Trehalose Sensitivity in a Natural Population of Drosophila melanogaster
Variation in trehalose sensitivity and nucleotide sequence polymorphism of the Gr5a gene encoding the gustatory receptor to sugar… 
1990
1990
[Changes in the activity of the taste receptor apparatus and the preference for a sodium chloride solution in newborn rats receiving capsaicin].
Taste receptor organ activity and preference of sodium chloride solution in rats with deficit of substance P (SP) were studied… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Mechanism of bitter taste reception: interaction of bitter compounds with monolayers of lipids from bovine circumvallate papillae.
1960
1960
Analysis of the single unit activity of gustatory receptors in the frog tongue.
Properties of single units of gustatory receptors in the frog tongue were investigated by recording the impulse discharge of… 
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