The number of functional olfactory receptor genes and the relative size of olfactory brain structures are poor predictors of olfactory discrimination performance with enantiomers

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-175

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Genzel, Daria ^a   Wieser, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination ability; Enantiomers; Nonhuman primates; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARVONE; LIMONENE; PERILLALDEHYDE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PROPANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENANTIOMER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUIRREL MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; CEBIDAE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOISOMERISM;

ANIMALIA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PROPANE; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SAIMIRI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 20144377554     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bji013     Document Type: Article

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