Olfactory discrimination of aliphatic odorants at 1 ppm: Too easy for CD-1 mice to show odor structure-activity relationships?

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 194, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 971-980

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Rosandher, Åsa ^a   Hommen, Sara ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aliphatic odorants; Functional groups; Mice; Odor structure activity relationships; Olfactory discrimination

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FATTY ACIDS; MALE; MICE; ODORS; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 54849423211     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-008-0370-y     Document Type: Article

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