Personalized expression of bitter ‘taste’ receptors in human skin

Abstract excerpt

The integumentary (i.e., skin) and gustatory systems both function to protect the human body and are a first point of contact with poisons and pathogens. These systems may share a similar protective mechanism because both human taste and skin cells express mRNA for bitter ‘taste’ receptors ( TAS2Rs ). Here, we used gene-specific methods to measure mRNA from all known bitter receptor genes in adult human skin from...

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• Alleles
• Gene Expression
• Genotype
• Heterozygote
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
• RNA, Messenger
• Taste

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Literature Corpus work

bb0371a9-6596-5efa-ac55-24e949b44aa2

DOI

10.1101/364901