Green odor reduces pain sensation and fatigue-like responses without affecting sensorimotor function

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30 SUPPL. 1, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Aou, Shuji ^a   Mizuno, Masaharu ^a   Matsunaga, Yuko ^b   Kubo, Kazuhiko ^b   Li, Xue Liang ^b   Hatanaka, Akikazu ^c  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Forced swimming; Green odors; Nociception; Open field test

Indexed keywords

2 HEXENAL; 3 HEXENOL; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL MODEL; AROMATHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TEA;

ALCOHOLS; ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HUMANS; LINOLEIC ACIDS; MOTOR SKILLS; ODORS; PAIN; PHEROMONES; RATS; SMELL; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644514347     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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