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Expression of the voltage-gated potassium channel KCNQ1 in mammalian taste bud cells and the effect of its null-mutation on taste preferences.
The Journal of comparative neurology - 20 Jan 2009
Wang Hong, Iguchi Naoko, Rong Qi, Zhou Minliang, Ogunkorode Martina, Inoue Masashi, Pribitkin Edmund A, Bachmanov Alexander A, Margolskee Robert F, Pfeifer Karl, Huang Liquan
Abstract excerpt
Vertebrate taste buds undergo continual cell turnover. To understand how the gustatory progenitor cells in the stratified lingual epithelium migrate and differentiate into different types of mature taste cells, we sought to identify genes that were selectively expressed in taste cells at differen...
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