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