Psychophysical measurement of 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) taste perception

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 855, Issue , 1998, Pages 816-819

  Lucchina, Laurie A ^a   Curtis V, Otis F ^b   Putnam, Peter ^b   Drewnowski, Adam ^c   Prutkin, Jordan M ^a   Bartoshuk, Linda M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Technical Service   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENSTRUATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0032466146     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10666.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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