Is the age-related loss in olfactory sensitivity similar for light and heavy molecules?

Chemical Senses

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 383-390

  Sinding, Charlotte ^a   Puschmann, Laura ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Molecular weight; Olfaction; Receptor; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMELLING DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; GAMMA-DODECALACTONE; GAMMA-VALEROLACTONE; LACTONE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTONES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901455751     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bju004     Document Type: Article

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