Oral irritant properties of piperine and nicotine: Psychophysical evidence for asymmetrical desensitization effects

Chemical Senses

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 405-413

  Dessirier, Jean Marc ^a,b   Nguyen, Nancy ^a   Sieffermann, Jean Marc ^b   Carstens, E ^a   O'Mahony, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; IRRITANT AGENT; NICOTINE; PIPERINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATING SCALE; SENSATION; STIMULATION; TONGUE;

ADULT; ALKALOIDS; BENZODIOXOLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; MALE; NICOTINE; PIPERIDINES; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TONGUE;

EID: 0032766946     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.4.405     Document Type: Article

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