Sentence examples for detect bitter from inspiring English sources

Perhaps a mutation changed the molecules that detect bitter substances so that they would be sensitive to glucose, too.

The vast majority of living humans--at least 75% of people in the world--can detect bitter flavors.

Taste cells detect bitter substances to avoid intake of toxins.

Among these receptors none is similar to DmGr66a or DmGr93a, thus raising the question of whether honeybees can detect bitter substances at all.

TRCs that express IP3R3 can be identified by their fluorescence which allows us to recognize Type II taste cells that detect bitter, sweet and umami tastants but lack conventional chemical synapses [44], [57].

Type II cells are primary chemosensing that contain the molecules for detecting sweet, umami, and bitter tastes: α-gustducin, T1 receptors (T1R) that detect sweet, including natural sweet tasting food, sweeteners and umami, and T2R that detect bitter 24, 25.

These data strongly support the important role of the PLC pathway in SCCs in detecting bitter and odorous chemicals to regulate their access to VNOs.

First and the most striking evidence was obtained from TRPM5 knockout mice and pharmacological inhibition in the dye assay, which clearly show the importance of TRPM5-expressing SCCs in detecting bitter substances to limit their access to the VNO.

Since TRPM5 is only expressed in SCCs, not in the trigeminal fibers, our results strongly demonstrate the role of SCCs and TRPM5 in detecting bitter fluid constituents to limit their access to VNOs.

"We know that people vary rather remarkably in their ability to taste bitter," he said, with some able to detect bitterness at very low concentrations.

Modern humans, Neandertals, and Denisovans all lost the ability to detect the bitter flavor in some wild plants and eventually modern humans bred varieties of squashes, gourds, and yams that are less bitter than the wild types.