Methods of human body odor sampling: The effect of freezing

Chemical Senses

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-138

  Lenochova, Pavlina ^a   Roberts, S Craig ^b   Havlicek, Jan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Armpit; Human; Mate choice; MHC; Olfaction; Smell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASCULINITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; STORAGE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SMELL;

EID: 59349085762     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn067     Document Type: Article

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