Test-retest reliability of the olfactory detection threshold test of the sniffin' sticks

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 461-467

  Albrecht, Jessica ^a   Anzinger, Andrea ^a   Kopietz, Rainer ^a   Schöpf, Veronika ^a   Kleemann, Anna Maria ^a   Pollatos, Olga ^a   Wiesmann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

n butanol; Odor; Olfaction; Repetition; Sensitivity; Smell

Indexed keywords

BUTANOL;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SNIFFING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

1-BUTANOL; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45549099032     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn013     Document Type: Article

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