| 11. | Each taste bud contains 50 to 100 taste receptor cells.
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| 12. | Genes for apparent bitter taste receptors were identified by Buck and others last year.
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| 13. | A "'taste receptor "'is a type of receptor which facilitates the sensation of taste.
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| 14. | In humans, it activates the bitter taste receptor hTAS2R50.
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| 15. | These apparently intronless genes encode a 7-transmembrane receptor protein, functioning as a bitter taste receptor.
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| 16. | It inhibits taste receptors, making water ( and other foods and drinks ) seem sweet.
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| 17. | People taste umami through taste receptors specific to glutamate.
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| 18. | Early explorers found taste receptors more populous in some regions of the tongue than in others.
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| 19. | Denatonium can act as a bronchodilator by activating bitter taste receptors in the airway smooth muscle.
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| 20. | Taste is a form of chemoreception which occurs in the specialised taste receptors in the mouth.
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