These findings are valuable for classification of tastecells and should facilitate further studies of taste cell development, differentiation and regeneration.
They screened these by assuming that a taste receptor would only be found in a small number of tissue types (specifically tongue tastecells). That whittled the list down to 900.
他们通过假设味觉受体应该只在很少种类的组织(特别是舌味觉细胞)中被发现,把名单缩减到900个。
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However, there is only a moderate correlation between the hydrogen ion concentration of a food and its perceived sourness due to the penetration of non-dissociated acids inside the tastecells.