The sweet taste receptor is expressed in taste cells located in taste buds of the tongue. This receptor senses sweet substances in the oral cavity, activates taste cells, and transmits the taste signals to adjacent neurons. The sweet taste receptor is a heterodimer of two G protein-coupled receptors, T1R2 and T1R3. Recent studies have shown that this receptor is also expressed in the extragusta...

Leptin is known to selectively suppress neural and behavioral responses to sweet-tasting compounds. However, the molecular basis for the effect of leptin on sweet taste is not known. Here, we report that leptin suppresses sweet taste via leptin receptors (Ob-Rb) and KATP channels expressed selectively in sweet-sensitive taste cells. Ob-Rb was more often expressed in taste cells that expressed T...

Sweet syndrome (acute, febrile, neutrophilic dermatosis) is characterized by the acute onset of an eruption of painful nodules or erythematous or violaceous plaques on the limbs, face and neck. These symptoms are accompanied by fever. The diagnostic features include histopathological findings of dermal neutrophilic infiltration without leukocytoclastic vasculitis or peripheral blood leukocytosi...

Abstract. This paper describes recognition and cutting system of sweet peppers for picking robots in greenhouse horticulture. This picking robot has an image processing system with a positioning system for two cameras and cutting a device to follow the sweet pepper by visual feedback control. A prototype robot system is introduced. Experiments of the prototype robot prove the performance of the...

in the first experiment, the chemical composition, apparent metabolizable energy (ame), ame corrected for nitrogen (amen), true metabolizable energy (tme), tme corrected for nitrogen (tmen) values of the sweet almond meal were determined in adult leghorn cockerels. the second experiment was performed to evaluate the effects of different levels of sweet almond meal at 0, 100, 200 and 300 g/kg on...

This community service (PKM) aims to provide training local residents in the manufacture and marketing of processed sorting oranges into dodol, sweets, tea. Sortir are a type orange that has good quality price is relatively cheaper than ordinary oranges. Therefore, processing sorted value-added products such as sweets tea can increase economic value for residents. was carried out Karang Jaya Vi...

This paper describes development and experiments of a picking robot for sweet peppers in greenhouse horticulture. This picking robot has an image processing system with a parallel stereovision, a camera positioning system to follow the sweet pepper by visual feedback control, and a cutting device. A prototype robot system has been made and is introduced. Experiments of the prototype prove that ...

a copy to be downloaded by an individual for the purpose of research and private study only. The thesis may not be reproduced elsewhere without the permission of the Author. Abstract Each year, the world's top orange producers output millions of oranges for human consumption. This production is projected to grow by as much as 64 million in 2010 and so the demand for fast, low-cost and precise a...

For many years it has been customary to treat certain varieties of citrus fruits, especially early oranges, with ethylene gas for the purpose of removing the green color from the rinds. This process is referred to by the trade as "coloring" but should more properly be termed "degreening." That the term "coloring" is ill-chosen may be seen from the fact that though the maximum amount of yellow r...

In the first experiment, the chemical composition, apparent metabolizable energy (AME), AME corrected for nitrogen (AMEn), true metabolizable energy (TME), TME corrected for nitrogen (TMEn) values of the sweet almond meal were determined in adult Leghorn cockerels. The second experiment was performed to evaluate the effects of different levels of sweet almond meal at 0, 100, 200 and 300 g/kg on...