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SUBMITTER: Li X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3094689 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Xia X Bachmanov Alexander A AA Maehashi Kenji K Li Weihua W Lim Raymond R Brand Joseph G JG Beauchamp Gary K GK Reed Danielle R DR Thai Chloe C Floriano Wely B WB
Chemical senses 20110316 5
Aspartame is a sweetener added to foods and beverages as a low-calorie sugar replacement. Unlike sugars, which are apparently perceived as sweet and desirable by a range of mammals, the ability to taste aspartame varies, with humans, apes, and Old World monkeys perceiving aspartame as sweet but not other primate species. To investigate whether the ability to perceive the sweetness of aspartame correlates with variations in the DNA sequence of the genes encoding sweet taste receptor proteins, T1R ...[more]