TY - JOUR
T1 - Initial licking responses of mice to sweeteners
T2 - Effects of Tas1r3 Polymorphisms
AU - Glendinning, John I.
AU - Chyou, Susan
AU - Lin, Ivy
AU - Onishi, Maika
AU - Patel, Puja
AU - Zheng, Kun Hao
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Anthony Sclafani and Alan Spector for valuable comments on the manuscript. This research was supported by grant number DC004475 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (to J.I.G.) and a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (to Barnard College). All procedures involving animals were approved by the Institutional Care and Use Committee of Columbia University.
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - Recent studies have established that the T1R3 receptor plays a central role in the taste-mediated ingestive response to sweeteners by mice. First, transgenic mice lacking the gene for T1R3, Tas1r3, show dramatically reduced lick responsiveness to most sweeteners. Second, strains with the taster allele of Tas1r3 (T strains) are more sensitive to low sweetener concentrations than strains with the nontaster allele (NT strains) and consume greater quantities of low- to midrange concentrations of sweeteners during 24-h tests. We asked how Tas1r3 polymorphisms influence the initial licking responses of four T strains (FVB/NJ, SWR/J, SM/J, and C57BL/6J) and four NT strains (BALB/cJ, 129P3/ J, DBA/2J, and C3H/HeJ) to two sweeteners (sucrose and SC-45647, an artificial sweetener). We used the initial licking response as a measure of the taste-mediated ingestive response because its brief duration minimizes the potential contribution of nontaste factors (e.g., negative and positive postingestive feedback). Further, we used two complimentary short-term intake tests (the brief-access taste test and a novel 1-min preference test) to reduce the possibility that our findings were an epiphenomenon of a specific testing procedure. In both tests, the T strains were more responsive than the NT strains to low concentrations of each sweetener. At higher concentrations, however, there was considerable overlap between the T and NT strains. In fact, the initial licking response of several NT strains was more vigorous than (or equivalent to) that of several T strains. There was also considerable variation among strains with the same Tas1r3 allele. We conclude that Tas1r3 polymorphisms contribute to strain differences in initial lick responsiveness to low but not high concentrations of sweeteners.
AB - Recent studies have established that the T1R3 receptor plays a central role in the taste-mediated ingestive response to sweeteners by mice. First, transgenic mice lacking the gene for T1R3, Tas1r3, show dramatically reduced lick responsiveness to most sweeteners. Second, strains with the taster allele of Tas1r3 (T strains) are more sensitive to low sweetener concentrations than strains with the nontaster allele (NT strains) and consume greater quantities of low- to midrange concentrations of sweeteners during 24-h tests. We asked how Tas1r3 polymorphisms influence the initial licking responses of four T strains (FVB/NJ, SWR/J, SM/J, and C57BL/6J) and four NT strains (BALB/cJ, 129P3/ J, DBA/2J, and C3H/HeJ) to two sweeteners (sucrose and SC-45647, an artificial sweetener). We used the initial licking response as a measure of the taste-mediated ingestive response because its brief duration minimizes the potential contribution of nontaste factors (e.g., negative and positive postingestive feedback). Further, we used two complimentary short-term intake tests (the brief-access taste test and a novel 1-min preference test) to reduce the possibility that our findings were an epiphenomenon of a specific testing procedure. In both tests, the T strains were more responsive than the NT strains to low concentrations of each sweetener. At higher concentrations, however, there was considerable overlap between the T and NT strains. In fact, the initial licking response of several NT strains was more vigorous than (or equivalent to) that of several T strains. There was also considerable variation among strains with the same Tas1r3 allele. We conclude that Tas1r3 polymorphisms contribute to strain differences in initial lick responsiveness to low but not high concentrations of sweeteners.
KW - Initial licking response
KW - Mice
KW - Sweet taste
KW - Tas1r3
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U2 - 10.1093/chemse/bji054
DO - 10.1093/chemse/bji054
M3 - Article
C2 - 16135742
AN - SCOPUS:24944512386
SN - 0379-864X
VL - 30
SP - 601
EP - 614
JO - Chemical Senses
JF - Chemical Senses
IS - 7
ER -