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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology2017

Detection of maltodextrin and its discrimination from sucrose are independent of the T1R2 + T1R3 heterodimer.

Kimberly R Smith, Alan C Spector

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Article in American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kimberly R SmithDepartment of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Alan C SpectorDepartment of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida spector@psy.fsu.edu.
Florida State University · US

Funding

Chemosensory Training Program (CTP)T32DC000044 · NIDCD · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI DEBRA Ann FADOOL · 1995 to 2026
$5.3M
PSYCHOPHYSICAL EVALUATION OF TASTE FUNCTIONR01DC004574 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI SPECTOR, ALAN C · 2001 to 2019
$4.4M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC004574NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC000044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maltodextrins, such as Maltrin and Polycose, are glucose polymer mixtures of varying chain lengths that are palatable to rodents. Although glucose and other sugars activate the T1R2 + T1R3 "sweet" taste receptor, recent evidence from T1R2- or T1R3-knockout (KO) mice suggests that maltodextrins, despite their glucose polymer composition, activate a separate receptor mechanism to generate a taste percept qualitatively distinguishable from that of sweeteners. However, explicit discrimination of maltodextrins from prototypical sweeteners has not yet been psychophysically tested in any murine model. Therefore, mice lacking T1R2 + T1R3 and wild-type controls were tested in a two-response taste discrimination task to determine whether maltodextrins are

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AnimalsDiscrimination, PsychologicalMiceMice, KnockoutPolysaccharidesReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledSucroseSweetening AgentsTaste PerceptionmaltodextrinPolysaccharidesReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledSucroseSweetening Agentstaste receptors, type 1knockout micemaltodextrinspsychophysicstastetaste receptor subunit

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PMID28768658
PMCPMC5668617
OpenAlexW2740331959

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