Concentration-detection functions for eye irritation evoked by homologous n-alcohols and acetates approaching a cut-off point

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-79

  Cometto Muñiz, J Enrique ^a   Cain, William S ^a   Abraham, Michael H ^b   Sánchez Moreno, Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetates; Eye irritation cut off; Eye irritation psychometric functions; N Alcohols; Ocular chemesthesis

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; DECANOL; NONANOL; UNDECANOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; STIMULUS;

ACETATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EYE; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 34548231017     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0966-4     Document Type: Article

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