Article
Allelic variation of the Tas1r3 taste receptor gene selectively affects behavioral and neural taste responses to sweeteners in the F2 hybrids between C57BL/6ByJ and 129P3/J mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 3 Mar 2004
Inoue Masashi, Reed Danielle R, Li Xia, Tordoff Michael G, Beauchamp Gary K, Bachmanov Alexander A
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have shown that the T1R3 receptor protein encoded by the Tas1r3 gene is involved in transduction of sweet taste. To assess ligand specificity of the T1R3 receptor, we analyzed the association of Tas1r3 allelic variants with taste responses in mice. In the F2 hybrids between the C57...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Choice Behavior
- Chorda Tympani Nerve
- Chromosome Mapping
- Crosses, Genetic
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Ligands
- Lod Score
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
