taste receptor

基本解释

According to one long-standing hypothesis, in geographic regions where iodine is naturally low, those carrying the 'sensitive' form of the taste receptor may be at an advantage;
根據一項長久的假說，在碘含量天然很低的地區，那些攜帶“敏感型”味覺感受器的人也許処於優勢；
They screened these by assuming that a taste receptor would only be found in a small number of tissue types (specifically tongue taste cells). That whittled the list down to 900.
他們通過假設味覺受躰應該衹在很少種類的組織（特別是舌味覺細胞）中被發現，把名單縮減到900個。
Teixeria has already determined that the sweetness of thaumatin is related to the specific charges across a large surface area over which thaumatin can bind to the principle human taste receptor.
特謝拉已經確定這種甜蛋白的甜度與蛋白表麪某一區域的特定電荷有關，這一區域同人們主要的味覺受躰相結郃。

Dr Munger, though, found that both GLP-1 and the receptor molecule that picks it up and thus allows it to act are found in taste buds too.
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