Odor structure-activity relationships of carboxylic acids correspond between squirrel monkeys and humans

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 6 43-6, 1998, Pages

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Teubner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nonhuman primates; Odor discrimination; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SQUIRREL MONKEY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0031799480     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.6.r1639     Document Type: Article

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