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“Emotional Nose”: The Hedonic Character of Olfaction and its Epistemological and Clinical Implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The olfactory system is the oldest device that most organisms have to perceive their physical and social environment. However, progressing in the evolutionary tree, the importance of the olfactory perception has decreased, and the sight has taken ...
Bochicchio, Vincenzo   +3 more
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Allelic exchange of pheromones and their receptors reprograms sexual identity in Cryptococcus neoformans. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Genetics, 2010
Cell type specification is a fundamental process that all cells must carry out to ensure appropriate behaviors in response to environmental stimuli.
Brynne C Stanton   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kinetics of Odorant Recognition with a Graphene-Based Olfactory Receptor Mimicry

open access: yesChemosensors, 2022
Malaria vector mosquito species rely on a handful of specific pheromones for mating; one of them, sulcatone (6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one), is also found in human exudation.
Caroline Bonazza, Klaus Bonazza
doaj   +1 more source

EFFICACY OF DIFFERENT HOMEMADE AND COMMERCIAL BAITS IN MONITORING OF FRUIT FLIES AT MARANTHANA, PYUTHAN, NEPAL [PDF]

open access: yesMalaysian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2022
Fruits & vegetable commodities incur huge loss in field & postharvest conditions due to infestation by Tephritid Fruit Flies. The adult female flies lay eggs inside near maturity fruits & vegetables.
Akash Gupta, Rajendra Regmi
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Pheromones and their role as aphrodisiacs: A review

open access: yesJournal of Acute Disease, 2013
Since the beginning of the human existence on the earth reproductive biology remained a main concern of research because of its importance. It is widely recognized and demonstrated that odors play an important role in mammalian reproduction.
Alok Semwal   +3 more
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Do pheromones influence human behavior? [PDF]

open access: yesChinese Science Bulletin, 2016
Social communication via airborne chemicals is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Such active substances were designated as “pheromones” by Karlson and Luscher in 1959. As specified by the original definition, pheromones refer to substances that are secreted to the outside by an individual and received by a second individual of the same species, in ...
YuTing YE, KePu CHEN, Wen ZHOU
openaire   +1 more source

Re: The Search for Human Pheromones: The Lost Decades and the Necessity of Returning to First Principles

open access: yesJournal of Urological Surgery, 2017
EDITORIAL COMMENT Pheromones are chemical signals that have evolved for communication with other members of the same species. We do not know yet if humans have pheromones. Over the last 45 years, some scientists have claimed that a number of molecules
Fehmi Narter
doaj   +1 more source

Pheromones in sex and reproduction: Do they have a role in humans?

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Research, 2012
Pheromones are found throughout the living world and are a primal form of communication. These chemical messengers are transported outside the body and have a direct developmental effect on hormone levels and/or behaviour.
Taymour Mostafa   +2 more
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Different goals in multiscale simulations and how to reach them [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper we sum up our works on multiscale programs, mainly simulations. We first start with describing what multiscaling is about, how it helps perceiving signal from a background noise in a ?ow of data for example, for a direct perception by a ...
Bertelle, Cyrille   +2 more
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Human Body Scents: Do they Influence our Behavior?

open access: yesNatural Product Communications, 2013
Pheromonal communication in the animal world has been of great research interest for a long time. While extraordinary discoveries in this field have been made, the importance of the human sense of smell was of far lower interest.
Sophie Mildner, Gerhard Buchbauer
doaj   +1 more source

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