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Taste shaped the use of botanical drugs
2023-07-19
Abstract excerpt
The perception of taste and flavour (a combination of taste, smell and chemesthesis) here also referred to as chemosensation, enables animals to find high-value foods and avoid toxins. Humans have learned to use unpalatable and toxic substances as medicines, yet the importance of chemosensation in this process is poorly understood. Here we generate tasting-panel data for botanical drugs and apply phylogenetic gene...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4ebf5355-d86b-5ac4-ab04-3960413b4f55
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.07.18.549469
