gymnemic acid

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effect on sense of taste

  • sensory reception
    In human sensory reception: Physiological basis of taste

    …unpleasant medications are blocked by gymnemic acid, a drug obtained from Gymnema bushes native to India. Among some laboratory animals, gymnemic acid blocks only the nerve response to sugar, even if the fibre mediates other taste qualities. Such a multiresponsive fibre still can transmit taste impulses (e.g., for salt or…

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