Olfaction scaffolds the developing human from neonate to adolescent and beyond [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2020 The impact of the olfactory sense is regularly apparent across development. The foetus is bathed in amniotic fluid that conveys the mother’s chemical ecology.
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The scent of mating strategy: sociosexual orientation was associated with olfaction and body odor sniffing behavior in Chinese and American populations [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Human sexuality and mating behaviors have been linked to the subjective importance of olfaction and body odor in one’s life. This study aimed to investigate the relationships between sociosexual orientation, subjective importance of olfaction,
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Retronasal Olfaction Test Methods: A Systematic Review
Balkan Medical Journal, 2019 Background: This report produces a bibliographic study of psychophysical tests proposed clinical assessments of retronasal olfaction. Aims: We review how these tests can be utilized and discuss their methodological properties.
Hüseyin Özay +2 more
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Better olfaction was associated with lower healthcare expenditure among physically independent Japanese community-dwelling older adults: the Yanai study [PDF]
Frontiers in AgingObjectiveWe aimed to determine whether olfaction is associated with healthcare expenditure among physically independent, community-dwelling older adults.MethodsThis cross-sectional study included 162 community-dwelling older adults (mean age 70.2 ± 5.4 ...
Yujiro Kose +17 more
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Stereo olfaction underlies stable coding of head direction in blind mice [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsStereo olfaction, the difference in odor concentration between the two nostrils, has been shown to affect a variety of animal behaviors, including olfactory search.
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Up the nose of the beholder? Aesthetic perception in olfaction as a decision-making process [PDF]
, 2014 Is the sense of smell a source of aesthetic perception? Traditional philosophical aesthetics has centered on vision and audition but eliminated smell for its subjective and inherently affective character.
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Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 Olfaction is an evolutionary old sensory system, which provides sophisticated access to information about our surroundings. In particular, detecting the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted during natural and artificial processes can be used as ...
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International consensus statement on allergy and rhinology: Olfaction
International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology, 2022 The literature regarding clinical olfaction, olfactory loss, and olfactory dysfunction has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, with an exponential rise in the past year.
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Drosophila olfaction: past, present and future
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022 Among the many wonders of nature, the sense of smell of the fly Drosophila melanogaster might seem, at first glance, of esoteric interest. Nevertheless, for over a century, the ‘nose’ of this insect has been an extraordinary system to explore questions ...
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NADPH Oxidase 3 Deficiency Protects From Noise-Induced Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 The reactive oxygen species (ROS)-generating NADPH oxidase NOX3 isoform is highly and specifically expressed in the inner ear. NOX3 is needed for normal vestibular development but NOX-derived ROS have also been implicated in the pathophysiology of ...
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