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ArticleHandbook of experimental pharmacology2022

Bitter Taste Receptors in the Airway Cells Functions.

Pawan Sharma, Stanley Conaway, Deepak Deshpande

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Article in Handbook of experimental pharmacology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. A deadly taste: linking bitter taste receptors and apoptosis.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2025
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  5. Bitter Taste Receptors 38 and 46 Regulate Intestinal Peristalsis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pawan SharmaCenter for Translational Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Jane and Leonard Korman Respiratory Institute, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Stanley ConawayCenter for Translational Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Jane and Leonard Korman Respiratory Institute, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Deepak DeshpandeCenter for Translational Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Jane and Leonard Korman Respiratory Institute, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. deepak.deshpande@jefferson.edu.
Thomas Jefferson University · US

Funding

Diacylglycerol kinase in airway smooth muscle functionsR01HL146645 · NHLBI · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI DESHPANDE, DEEPAK A, KAMBAYASHI, TAKU · 2019 to 2024
$2.8M
E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF145 in airway smooth muscle functions and in asthmaR01HL161205 · NHLBI · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI Pawan Sharma · 2022 to 2026
$2.4M
Functional Diversity of Compartmentalized Calcium Signaling in Airway Smooth MuscleR01HL137030 · NHLBI · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI DESHPANDE, DEEPAK A · 2018 to 2021
$2.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL137030NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL146645NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL161205
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a central role in regulating the functions of a diverse range of cell types in the airway. Taste 2 receptor (T2R) family of GPCRs is responsible for the transduction of bitter taste; however, recent studies have demonstrated that different subtypes of T2Rs and key components of T2R signaling are expressed in several extra-oral tissues including airways with many physiological roles. In the lung, expression of T2Rs has been confirmed in multiple airway cell types including airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells, various epithelial cell subtypes, and on both resident and migratory immune cells. Most importantly, activation of T2Rs with a variety of putative agonists elicits unique signaling in ASM and specialized airway epithelial cells resulting in the inhibition of ASM contraction and proliferation, promotion of ciliary motility, and innate immune response in chemosensory airway epithelial cells. Here we discuss the expression of T2Rs and the mechanistic basis of their function in the structural cells of the airways with some useful insights on immune cells in the context of allergic asthma and other upper airway inflammatory disorders. Emphasis on T2R biology and pharmacology in airway cells has an ulterior goal of exploiting T2Rs for therapeutic benefit in obstructive airway diseases.

Indexed as

Respiratory SystemTasteHumansMyocytes, Smooth MuscleReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledSignal TransductionReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledAirway remodelingAsthmaBitter taste receptorsContractionCOPDGPCRsInflammationObstructive lung diseaseRelaxationT2R

Identifiers

PMID33604702
PMCPMC12834232
OpenAlexW3129254318

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