Dose-addition of individual odorants in the odor detection of binary mixtures

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-105

  Cometto Muñiz, J Enrique ^a   Cain, William S ^a   Abraham, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butyl acetate; Chemical mixtures; Dose additivity; Odor detection; Olfaction; Psychometric odor functions; Toluene

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TOLUENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ACETATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHEMORECEPTORS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; TOLUENE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0037421114     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00234-6     Document Type: Article

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