Personalized expression of bitter 'taste' receptors in human skin.

The integumentary (i.e., skin) and gustatory systems both function to protect the human body and are a first point of contact with poisons and pathogens. These systems may share a similar protective mechanism because, as we show here, both human taste and skin cells express mRNA for bitter 'tas...

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Main Authors: Lauren Shaw, Corrine Mansfield, Lauren Colquitt, Cailu Lin, Jaime Ferreira, Jaime Emmetsberger, Danielle R Reed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6192714?pdf=render