Ultra-high olfactory sensitivity for the human sperm-attractant aromatic aldehyde bourgeonal in CD-1 mice

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 355-360

  Larsson, Linda ^a   Laska, Matthias ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aromatic aldehydes; Bourgeonal; Detection thresholds; Mice; Olfactory sensitivity; Sperm attractant odorants

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; BOURGEONAL; CANTHOXAL; CYCLAMAL; HYDROCINNAMALDEHYDE; LILLIAL; LYRAL; PHENOBARBITAL; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL;

EID: 81055156852     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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