Olfactory sensitivity for enantiomers and their racemic mixtures - A comparative study in CD-1 mice and spider monkeys

Chemical Senses

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 655-664

  Joshi, Dipa ^a   Völkl, Michaela ^b   Shepherd, Gordon M ^a   Laska, Matthias ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD 1 mice; Detection thresholds; Enantiomers; Olfactory sensitivity; Racemic mixtures; Spider monkeys

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CARVONE; LIMONENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENANTIOMER; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE; RELIABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBIDAE; CYCLOHEXENES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MONOTERPENES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; STEREOISOMERISM; TERPENES;

ANIMALIA; ATELES SP.;

EID: 33749552595     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjl006     Document Type: Article

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