Determinants for nasal trigeminal detection of volatile organic compounds

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 627-642

  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

Anosmics; Chemical irritation cutoff; Nasal localization or lateralization; Nasal pungency; Structure activity in chemesthesis; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

COUMARIN; OCTANOIC ACID; PHENETHYL ALCOHOL; VANILLIN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE STIMULATION; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VAPOR PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; OLFACTION DISORDERS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 27244432244     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bji056     Document Type: Article

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