High altitude effects on human taste intensity and hedonics

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1123-1128

  Singh, Shashi Bala ^a   Sharma, Alka ^a   Yadav, D K ^a   Verma, S S ^a   Srivastava, D N ^a   Sharma, K N ^a   Selvamurthy, W ^a  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY BALANCE; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; SODIUM INTAKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; HUMANS; MALE; PHILOSOPHY; TASTE; TASTE THRESHOLD;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

EID: 0030777679     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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