Olfactory responsiveness to two odorous steroids in three species of nonhuman primates

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 505-511

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Wieser, Alexandra ^a   Hernandez Salazar, Laura Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Androstenol; Androstenone; Nonhuman primates; Olfactory detection thresholds; Specific anosmia

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; ANDROSTENONE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HABITUATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MACACA; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

ANDROSTENOLS; ANDROSTERONE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEROIDS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; ATELES SP.; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI;

EID: 23844480825     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bji043     Document Type: Article

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