Taste and Smell

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Krautwurst, Dietmar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 23
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Pharmacology.; Medicinal chemistry.; Proteins.; Medicinal Chemistry.; Receptors.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Medicinal chemistry is both science and art. The science of medicinal chemistry offers mankind one of its best hopes for improving the quality of life. The art of medicinal chemistry continues to challenge its practitioners with the need for both intuition and experience to discover new drugs. Hence...

Table of Contents:

• Taste receptor gene expression outside the gustatory system
• Medicinal Chemistry of Plant Naturals as Agonists/Antagonists for Taste Receptors
• Chemical activation of TRP channels in taste and smell
• Olfactory transduction channels and their modulation by varieties of volatile substances
• Chemosensory G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) in blood leukocytes
• Neuronal functions and emerging pharmacology of TAAR1.