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  • Because of the link between zinc and the taste-related protein called gustin, impaired sense of taste and / or smell are common symptoms of zinc deficiency.

    The World's Healthiest Foods 2009

  • Because of the link between zinc and the taste-related protein called gustin, impaired sense of taste and / or smell are common symptoms of zinc deficiency.

    The World's Healthiest Foods 2009

  • - propylthiouracil (PROP) may be correlated with body mass index (BMI) and differences in the salivary proteins involved in taste function, such as the zinc-dependent enzyme gustin, which is a trophic factor of taste buds.

    American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue Padiglia 2010

  • It's blowin 'and gustin' but I've seen it do this before with not a drop to show for it.

    June 25th, 2001 2001

  • The only French version of her life — a spiteful attack, according to Mrs. Brombert — is an obscure volume, published in 1926, by A. A.gustin-Thierry, a grandnephew of the famous historian, A.gustin Thierry, with whom Cristina had a long and intimate intellectual friendship.

    Risorgimento and Romantic Agony Weightman, John 1977

  • "Now, don't y 'give the boy one of them dis-gustin', round, mush-bowl hair cuts!" he warned, addressing the small, dark man.

    The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

  • The play made no money in Washington, but A.gustin Daly decided to put it on in New York at the Fifth A.enue Theater, with a company which included, besides Parsloe, Edmund Collier, P.A. A.derson, Dora

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • The play made no money in Washington, but A.gustin Daly decided to put it on in New York at the Fifth A.enue Theater, with a company which included, besides Parsloe, Edmund Collier, P.A. A.derson, Dora

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • 'Yo're a geedy thing -- a geedy' gustin 'thing!' he cried, sobbing partly because he wanted the cake, still more because, after his exaltation on Hannah's knee, he had been so unaccountably neglected.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • Our data showed a direct association between PROP sensitivity and a polymorphism in the gustin gene that is hypothesized to affect its function.

    American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue Padiglia 2010

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