Assessment of Olfactory Function and Androstenone Odor Thresholds in Humans with or Without Functional Occlusion of the Vomeronasal Duct

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1135-1141

  Knecht, Michael ^a   Lundström, Johan N ^b   Witt, Martin ^a   Hüttenbrink, Karl Bernd ^a   Heilmann, Stefan ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENONE; PHENETHYL ALCOHOL; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SMELLING; VOMERONASAL DUCT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANDROSTERONE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PERCEPTION; PHEROMONES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0242341165     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1135     Document Type: Article

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