Pheromone signal transduction in humans: What can be learned from olfactory loss

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3057-3065

  Savic, Ivanka ^a   Hedén Blomqvist, Ebba ^a   Berglund, Hans ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anosmia; Brain; Olfaction; Pheromones; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ANDROSTA 4,16 DIEN 3 ONE; ESTRADIOL DERIVATIVE; ESTRATETRAENOL; OXYGEN 15; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIN; WATER;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANOSMIA; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; NOSE POLYP; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; THALAMUS; VENOUS BLOOD; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NASAL MUCOSA; NASAL POLYPS; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHEROMONES, HUMAN; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67449085691     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20727     Document Type: Article

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