Joseph Brand (biologist)

Joseph G. Brand
Joseph G. Brand
Alma mater	University of Rochester
Known for	Amiloride as a sodium inhibitor, nonfunctioning cat taste receptor
	Scientific career
Fields	Biology, Genetics
Institutions	Monell Chemical Senses Center
Doctoral advisor	Taft Toribara
Doctoral students	Xia Li

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

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^ Brand, Joseph; Teeter, J. H.; Silver, WL (1985), "Inhibition by amiloride of chorda tympani responses evoked by monovalent salts", Brain Research, 334 (2), Philadelphia: Brain Res: 207–14, doi:10.1016/0006-8993(85)90212-4, PMID 3995317, S2CID 46418939

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[1] Brand, Joseph; Teeter, J. H.; Silver, WL (1985), "Inhibition by amiloride of chorda tympani responses evoked by monovalent salts", Brain Research, 334 (2), Philadelphia: Brain Res: 207–14, doi:10.1016/0006-8993(85)90212-4, PMID 3995317, S2CID 46418939

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Joseph Brand (biologist)

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