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Genetics of the taste receptor T2R38 correlates with chronic rhinosinusitis necessitating surgical intervention.
International forum of allergy & rhinology - 1 Mar 2013
Adappa Nithin D, Howland Timothy J, Palmer James N, Kennedy David W, Doghramji Laurel, Lysenko Anna, Reed Danielle R, Lee Robert J, Cohen Noam A
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BACKGROUND: We recently demonstrated the bitter taste receptor T2R38 upregulates sinonasal mucosal innate defense in response to gram-negative quorum-sensing molecules through increased nitric oxide production and mucociliary clearance. T2R38 was initially identified in the quest to understand the variability in bitter taste perception to the compound phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and demonstrated to have...
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