Effects of long-term exposure to volatile irritants on sensory thresholds, negative mucosal potentials, and event-related potentials

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 180-187

  Dalton, Pamela ^a   Dilks, Daniel ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^b  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Electrophysiology; Irritation; Olfaction; Pain

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACETONE; IRRITANT AGENT; VOLATILE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMELLING; VAPOR;

ACETIC ACID; ACETONE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; MALE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 33644784002     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.1.180     Document Type: Article

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