Bitter taste receptors inside cancer cells have been found to be activated in the presence of anti-cancer drugs. Shutting ...

A research team from the Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, Okayama University of Science, has made a ...

Taste buds are specialised sensory organs that facilitate the detection of chemical stimuli, ultimately guiding dietary preferences and enabling protective reflexes. Composed of distinct cell types – ...

Researchers have discovered that deactivating bitter taste receptors in cancer cells could significantly enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments.

Researchers at Okayama University of Science have discovered that bitter taste receptors—the same type found on the human ...

A) Taste tissue of wild-type mice and taste cell synaptic dysfunction mice (SNAP-cKO). In SNAP-cKO mice, the number of sour-sensing cells is reduced. B) Gustatory nerve responses to various taste ...

The tongue contains numerous taste buds-tiny sensory organs responsible for detecting taste. Taste buds consist of specialized cells that translate chemical stimuli into neural signals. Among them, ...

Our enjoyment of sweets can be traced to one subset of taste receptor cells – specialized sweet-sensing cells found in our taste buds – that initiate the chain of reactions driving our strong ...

Researchers have revealed a lynchpin of the mechanism behind sour taste. In a recent mouse model study from Okayama University (Japan), a team of researchers has revealed the importance of synaptosome ...