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;
根据一项长久的假说，在碘含量天然很低的地区，那些携带“敏感型”味觉感受器的人也许处于优势；
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.
他们通过假设味觉受体应该只在很少种类的组织（特别是舌味觉细胞）中被发现，把名单缩减到900个。
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.
特谢拉已经确定这种甜蛋白的甜度与蛋白表面某一区域的特定电荷有关，这一区域同人们主要的味觉受体相结合。

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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