Olfactory discrimination of short chain fatty acids in rats with large bilateral lesions of the olfactory bulbs

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 361-370

  Bisulco, Stephanie ^a   Slotnick, Burton ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliphatic acids; Odor coding; Odor discrimination; Odor memory

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARVONE; HEXANOIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENANTIOMER; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SMELLING DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; ODOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FATTY ACIDS; MALE; MEMORY; OLFACTORY BULB; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL;

EID: 0141652087     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.5.361     Document Type: Article

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