Olfactory discrimination ability for aliphatic odorants as a function of oxygen moiety

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-197

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Ayabe Kanamura, Saho ^b,c   Hübener, Fabienne ^a   Saito, Sachiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS CONTAINING OXYGEN; KETONE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASTE;

EID: 0034085874     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/25.2.189     Document Type: Article

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