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In Search of Human Skin Pheromones

Archives of Dermatology, 1994
The term pheromone was first designated by Karlson and Lüscher in 1959 as a substance secreted by an animal to the outside of that individual, which was then received by another individual, classically of the same species, and which then elicited some behavioral or developmental response in the latter.
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Human Pheromones: Releasers or Primers

1999
Historically, insect pheromones and the responses to them were thought to have a high degree of specificity and a considerable degree of genetic programming. These include overt displays of attraction and copulation mediated solely by chemical signals, which have been described as releaser effects on behavior.
George Preti, Charles J. Wysocki
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Role of Pheromones in Human Behavior

Indian Science Cruiser, 2016
The present article encompasses the important and intriguing role of pheromones in human behavior. Various glandular and chemical sources (mainly hormone derivatives) of different pheromones in human are discussed here in detail. Important discoveries in this respect are specially mentioned.
Riju Ghosh, Subho Ghosh
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Do perfume additives termed human pheromones warrant being termed pheromones?

Physiology & Behavior, 2004
Two studies of the effects of perfume additives, termed human pheromones by the authors, have conveyed the message that these substances can promote an increase in human sociosexual behaviour [Physiol. Behav. 75 (2003) R1; Arch. Sex. Behav. 27 (1998) R2]. The present paper presents an extended analysis of this data. It is shown that in neither study is
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Odor Communication, Pheromones, and Human Families

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1985
Recent evidence suggests that human odor communication may have particular relevance for family scholars. This paper examines the role of odor communication in kin recognition, parental attachment, mate selection, and procreation. Evidence for odor communication in each of these areas is critically presented.
Erik E. Filsinger, Richard A. Fabes
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Analysis of potential human pheromones

2020
The question of whether humans communicate with pheromones and what they might look like has been in the focus of research for many years. Previous studies on this topic investigated the expression of pheromone receptors and the presence of a vomeronasal organ, the site where pheromone receptors are found in many other mammals or sought to discover the
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Axillary pheromones modulate pulsatile LH secretion in humans

Neuroreport, 2001
We examined the effect of axillary compounds on pulsatile secretion of serum luteinizing hormone (LH). Axillary compounds were collected from donor women in the follicular phase (FP) and the ovulatory phase (OP) and were treated with isopropyl alcohol (IPA).
K, Shinohara, M, Morofushi, T, Funabashi, F, Kimura   +3 more
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Human pheromones: have they been demonstrated?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2003
Efforts to collect evidence of human pheromones have focused on three partly overlapping classes of possible human pheromones: (1) axillary steroids, (2) vaginal aliphatic acids, and (3) stimulators of the vomeronasal organ. Examples of each of these classes have been patented for commercial use, and in some cases aggressively marketed, but there is ...
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Do human menstrual-cycle pheromones exist?

Human Nature, 2006
Research over the past 15 years indicates, contrary to earlier results, that women do not synchronize their menstrual cycles. If women do not synchronize their cycles, this implies there is no mechanism for synchronizing cycles. Since a pheromone mechanism of synchronization is the only plausible mechanism that has been proposed, it follows that that ...
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Human pheromones and body scents

2012
Pheromonal communication in the animal world has been of great researchers’ interest for a long time. While extraordinary discoveries in this field were made, the importance of the human sense of smell was of far lower interest. Humans are seen as poorsmellers and therefore research about human olfaction remains quite sparse compared to other animals ...
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