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ArticleJournal of agricultural and food chemistry2024

Influence of Sodium Chloride on Human Bitter Taste Receptor Responses.

Praveen Kumar, Maik Behrens

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Article in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Daily dietary patterns associated withFrontiers in nutrition · 2026
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  9. Taste disorders in cancer patients and current therapeutic approaches: a narrative review of an understudied topic in supportive care.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  10. Bitter taste receptors.Chemical senses · 2025
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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.

Praveen KumarLeibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, Lise-Meitner-Str. 34, 85354 Freising, Germany.
Maik BehrensLeibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, Lise-Meitner-Str. 34, 85354 Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2082-8860
Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past, taste interactions between sodium chloride (NaCl) and bitter tastants were investigated in human sensory studies, and the suppression of bitterness by sodium was observed. It is currently not clear if this phenomenon occurs predominantly peripherally or centrally and if the effect is general or only particular bitter compounds are blocked. Therefore, the influence of NaCl at the receptor level was tested by functional expression assays using four out of ∼25 human bitter taste receptors together with prototypical agonists. It was observed that NaCl affected only the responses of particular bitter taste receptor-compound pairs, whereas other bitter responses remained unchanged upon variations of the sodium concentrations. Among the tested receptors, TAS2R16 showed a reduction in signaling in the presence of NaCl. This demonstrates that for some receptor-agonist pairs, NaCl reduces the activation at the receptor level, whereas central effects may dominate the NaCl-induced bitter taste inhibition for other substances.

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Receptors, G-Protein-CoupledSodium ChlorideHEK293 CellsHumansTasteTaste BudsTaste Receptors, Type 2Receptors, G-Protein-CoupledSodium ChlorideTaste Receptors, Type 2bitter suppressioncalcium mobilization assayG protein-coupled receptorsN-methyl-d-glucaminesalicinsodium chlorideTAS2R16

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PMID38663860
PMCPMC11082923
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