Odor and irritation thresholds for ammonia: A comparison between static and dynamic olfactometry

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-20

  Smeets, Monique A M ^a   Bulsing, Patricia J ^a   van Rooden, Sanneke ^a   Steinmann, Ranjita ^a   de Ru, J Alexander ^b   Ogink, Nico W M ^c   van Thriel, Christoph ^d   Dalton, Pamela H ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^e MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Olfaction; Perceptual threshold; Sensory irritation; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTOMETER; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SMELLING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

AMMONIA; ODORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL;

EID: 33845890265     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjl031     Document Type: Article

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