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  • noun Any substance that stimulates the sense of taste.

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Examples

  • The MOG is an enabling technology that facilitates high throughput screens of tastant libraries and natural product extracts by rodents trained to discriminate specific taste standards.

    Redpoint Bio Reports Three Months and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2010 Results - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • The MOG is an enabling technology that facilitates high throughput screens of tastant libraries and natural product extracts by rodents trained to discriminate specific taste standards.

    Redpoint Advances Salt Enhancer Discovery Program - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • Synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2B (SV2B), a regulator of synaptic vesicle exocytosis, is expressed in PKD2L1 cells, suggesting that this taste cell population transmits tastant information to gustatory afferent nerve fibers via exocytic neurotransmitter release.

    Elites TV 2009

  • This shows the data that we are able to produce in the laboratories with that peak shows there is actually this TRPM5 channel firing and as we show down there in the bottom where the model tastant ATP, we are introducing that model tastant into the cell-based system and then we get the channel to fire owing to the release of calcium as I described to you.

    unknown title 2008

  • This cartoon on the right shows a taste cell of the sort that you have in the taste bud of your tongue and on the surface of this taste cell there is a receptors called the G-protein-coupled receptor and tastants, which can be things like sugar molecules, sweet tastant, a savory tastant would be something like monosodium glutamate, bitter tastant would be something like a caffeine, they bind to these G-protein coupled receptors and cause a signaling cascade.

    unknown title 2008

  • "It is not an easy task for the food industry to reduce salt, because there is no real alternative for salt as a tastant.

    FoodNavigator RSS 2009

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