Olfactory discrimination ability for homologous series of aliphatic alcohols and aldehydes

Chemical Senses

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 263-270

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Teubner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE; ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; BUTYRALDEHYDE; OCTANOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033018084     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.3.263     Document Type: Article

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