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Involvement of T1R3 in calcium-magnesium taste.
Physiological genomics - 15 Aug 2008
Tordoff Michael G, Shao Hongguang, Alarcón Laura K, Margolskee Robert F, Mosinger Bedrich, Bachmanov Alexander A, Reed Danielle R, McCaughey Stuart
Abstract excerpt
Calcium and magnesium are essential for survival but it is unknown how animals detect and consume enough of these minerals to meet their needs. To investigate this, we exploited the PWK/PhJ (PWK) strain of mice, which, in contrast to the C57BL/6J (B6) and other inbred strains, displays strong preferences for calcium solutions. We found that the PWK strain also has strong preferences for MgCl2 and saccharin...
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