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Researcher's Profile

Last Name

 Hellekant 

First Name

 Bengt 

Middle Initial

 Göran 

Areas of Research Expertise
* Focuses on taste physiology, sweeteners and sweetness, oral circulation and salivation
* Current project studies how the ability to taste sweet and bitter is affected by the presence or absence of sweet and bitter receptors in the taste buds

Web site

 Goran Hellekant's University Web Page 

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  

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Issued Patent(s)
  • 5,741,537 - Brazzein sweetener, granted Apr 1998.

USPTO Published Applications

Recent Publication(s)
  • "Taste responses to sweet stimuli in alpha-gustducin knockout and wild-type mice"
Danilova V, Damak S, Margolskee RF, et al., Chemical Senses 31 (6): 573-580 Jul 2006. The data indicate that alpha-gustducin participates in the transduction of the sweet taste in general.
  • "Elucidating coding of taste qualities with the taste modifier miraculin in the common marmoset"
Danilova V, Hellekant G, Brain Research Bulletin 68 (5): 315-321 Jan 2006.
  • "ATP signaling is crucial for communication from taste buds to gustatory nerves"
Finger TE, Danilova V, Barrows J, et al., Science 310 (5753): 149501499 Dec 2005. Results show that ATP fulfils the criteria for a neurotransmitter linking taste buds to the nervous system.
  • "Interactions of the sweet protein brazzein with the sweet taste receptor"
Walters DE, Hellekant G, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 54 (26): 10129-10133 Dec 2006. Study finds that brazzein is in contact primarily with the T1R2 subunit of the receptor, and it accounts for 21 of the 23 mutation results examined.

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E-mail Address

 gh@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu 

Phone Number

 (608) 262-1056 

Current University

 UW - Madison 

Department

 Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences 

Title

 Emeritus Professor 

Other Appointments
 

Address Line 1

 113 Animal Health & Biomedical Sciences Building 

Address Line 2

 1656 Linden Drive 

City

 Madison 

State

 WI 

Zip Code

 53706 

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