Human male superiority in olfactory sensitivity to the sperm attractant odorant bourgeonal

Chemical Senses

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 427-432

  Olsson, Peter ^a   Laska, Matthias ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bourgeonal; Gender differences; Olfactory detection thresholds

Indexed keywords

BOURGEONAL; PENTYL ACETATE; PHENOBARBITAL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ALDEHYDES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMELL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 77953910454     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq030     Document Type: Article

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