Dollars and scents: Commercial opportunities in olfaction and taste

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 1043-1045

  Gilbert, Avery N ^a   Firestein, Stuart ^b  

^a Sense of Smell Institute   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONSUMER; FOOD INTAKE; GENOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; NUTRITION; PEST CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SMELLING; TASTE;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DRUG DESIGN; HUMANS; ODORS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SMELL; TASTE; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 0036829945     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn937     Document Type: Review

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