Joseph Brand (biologist)

Joseph G. Brand
Residence Pennsylvania
Fields Biologist, Geneticist
Institutions Monell Chemical Senses Center
Alma mater University of Rochester
Doctoral advisor Taft Toribara, Ph.D
Doctoral students Xia Li
Known for Amiloride as a sodium inhibitor, nonfunctioning cat taste receptor

Dr. Joseph G. Brand is a biologist currently at Monell Chemical Senses Center. In 1985, Dr. Brand discovered that the substance amiloride is an inhibitor of sodium when present in the epithelia of rats.[1] Subsequently in 2005, Dr. Brand and Dr. Xia Li discovered that cats did not have a functioning sweet taste receptor, because it was made obsolete by evolution.

References

  1. ↑ Brand, Joseph; Teeter, J. H.; Silver, WL (1985), "Inhibition by amiloride of chorda tympani responses evoked by monovalent salts", Brain Research (Philadelphia: Brain Res) 334 (2): 207–14, doi:10.1016/0006-8993(85)90212-4, PMID 3995317 |contribution= ignored (help)

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