Identification of gustatory-olfactory flavor mixtures: effects of linguistic labeling.

abstract：:Evidence suggests that women outperform men in core aspects of odor perception, and sex hormones may play a significant role in moderating this effect. The gender-affirming treatment (GAT) of transgender persons constitutes a powerful natural experiment to study the psychological and behavioral effects of high dosages...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Kranz GS,Kaufmann U,Lanzenberger R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual recognition has been studied across a number of taxa and modalities; however, few attempts have been made to combine chemical and biological approaches and arrive at a more complete understanding of the use of secretions as signals. We combined behavioral habituation experiments with gas chromatography-mass...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Liu D,Huang KJ,Zhang JX

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are proposing that the "relative" abundances of the differently tuned pheromone-component-responsive olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) on insect antennae are not a result of natural selection working to maximize absolute sensitivity to individual pheromone components. Rather, relative abundances are a result of spe...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Baker TC,Domingue MJ,Myrick AJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The state of the art in aroma analysis is reviewed with emphasis on aroma-recombination studies using synthetic blends of odorants (aroma models) which have been prepared on the basis of analytical data. The model that matches the original aroma is the starting material for omission experiments which are performed to ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Grosch W

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a strategy for the rapid high-throughput screening of odor responsivity in genetically altered mice (in fact, any experimentally altered animal). Specifically, the report presents the development and validation of a fully automated procedure based on the evaluation of an animal's stimulus-induced ref...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Youngentob SL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odorants and flavorants typically contain many components. It is generally easier to detect multicomponent stimuli than to detect a single component, through either neural integration or probability summation (PS) (or both). PS assumes that the sensory effects of 2 (or more) stimulus components (e.g., gustatory and ol...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Marks LE,Veldhuizen MG,Shepard TG,Shavit AY

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasympathetic nerve (PSN) innervates taste cells of the frog taste disk, and electrical stimulation of PSN elicited a slow hyperpolarizing potential (HP) in taste cells. Here we report that gustatory receptor potentials in frog taste cells are depressed by PSN-induced slow HPs. When PSN was stimulated at 30 Hz durin...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Sato T,Nishishita K,Mineda T,Okada Y,Toda K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the membrane-permeable dibutyryl guanosine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (db-cGMP) on the bombykol-elicited receptor current and nerve impulse activity were studied using the open sensillum recording technique. db-cGMP was applied to the outer dendritic membrane of the olfactory receptor neuron of the mot...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Redkozubov A

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection thresholds for NaCl, KCl, sucrose, aspartame, acetic acid, citric acid, caffeine, quinine HCl, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP) were assessed in 21 young (19-33 years) and 21 elderly (60-75 years) persons by taking the average of six ascending two-alternative forced choice tests....

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Mojet J,Christ-Hazelhof E,Heidema J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odors are powerful in bringing back old and vivid memories bearing emotional content. This inherent hedonic property of olfactory stimuli makes this sensory modality particularly suitable for studying autobiographical memory. In the present work, adolescents (first experiment), young adults (second experiment), and el...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Zucco GM,Aiello L,Turuani L,Köster E

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is important for activating accessory olfactory pathways that are involved in sexually dimorphic mating behavior. The VNO of male garter snakes is critically important for detection of, and response to, female sex pheromones. In the present study, under voltage-clamp conditions, male snake ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Huang GZ,Zhang JJ,Wang D,Mason RT,Halpern M

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of stimulus timing and location on the perceptual integration of taste and odour was studied based on a sub-threshold methodology. From a panel of 16 people, 12 showed the integration effect previously reported while 4 showed no effect. The experiment was repeated using retronasal and orthonasal deliver...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Pfeiffer JC,Hollowood TA,Hort J,Taylor AJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the mechanisms of perception and processing of pheromonal signals in vitro, we previously developed a new culture system for vomeronasal receptor neurons (VRNs), referred to as the vomeronasal pocket (VN pocket). However, very few VRNs were found to express the olfactory marker protein (OMP) and to have pro...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Moriya-Ito K,Osada T,Ishimatsu Y,Muramoto K,Kobayashi T,Ichikawa M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past 2 decades, considerable progress has been made in the study of bird semiochemistry, and our goal was to review and evaluate this literature with particular emphasis on the volatile organic constituents. Indeed, since the importance of social chemosignaling in birds is becoming more and more apparent, t...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Campagna S,Mardon J,Celerier A,Bonadonna F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rodents, the vomeronasal system controls social and sexual behavior. However, several mechanistic aspects of sensory signaling in the vomeronasal organ remain unclear. Here, we investigate the biophysical basis of a recently proposed vomeronasal signal transduction component-a Ca(2+)-activated Cl(-) current. As the...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Untiet V,Moeller LM,Ibarra-Soria X,Sánchez-Andrade G,Stricker M,Neuhaus EM,Logan DW,Gensch T,Spehr M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was recently shown that in some subjects capsaicin can evoke bitterness as well as burning and stinging, particularly in the circumvallate (CV) region of the tongue. Because perception of bitterness from capsaicin is characterized by large individual differences, the main goal of the present study was to learn whet...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Green BG,Hayes JE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past research has shown that odor perception can be affected by how we label odors. The aim of this study was to expand on previous work by investigating the impact of labels on edibility, pleasantness, and intensity ratings as well as on reaction times when detecting labeled odors. We tested 50 subjects. Five odorant...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Manescu S,Frasnelli J,Lepore F,Djordjevic J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our study was designed to examine how components of complex mixtures can inhibit the binding of other components to receptor sites in the olfactory system of the spiny lobster Panulirus argus. Biochemical binding assays were used to study how two- to six-component mixtures inhibit binding of the radiolabeled odorants ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Gentilcore LR,Derby CD

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfaction involves a dual sensory process for perceiving odors orthonasally (through the nostrils) and retronasally (through the mouth). This investigation entailed developing a measure of sensitivity to an odor delivered in an orally sampled food (orange flavoring in a sucrose-sweetened gelatin) and examining sensiti...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Duffy VB,Cain WS,Ferris AM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether age influences taste solution preferences, we measured taste preferences of C57BL/6J and 129X1/SvJ mice given a series of 48-h 2-bottle tests with a choice between water and one of the following taste solutions: 2 mM saccharin, 5 mM citric acid, 30 microM quinine hydrochloride, 75 mM sodium chloride...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Tordoff MG

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats trained on a series of 16 novel 2-odor discrimination tasks using a 10-s intertrial interval (ITI) rapidly improved in performance and made only 0-3 errors by the end of the test series. They were then tested on other novel pairs of odors, but with a 10- and a 30-min interval between trials. There was no decremen...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Lovelace CT,Slotnick BM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we report data from freely breathing animals in an attempt to show how respiratory dynamics can influence bulbar and cortical activity. Relying on in vivo data as well as in vitro observations, we try to emphasize the multiple mechanisms that underlie this modulation, its multiple origins, and its possi...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Buonviso N,Amat C,Litaudon P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments assessed potential changes in the rat's perception of sodium chloride (NaCl) during a state of sodium appetite. In Experiment 1, sodium-sufficient rats licking a range of NaCl concentrations (0.028-0.89M) in 15s trials showed an inverted U-shaped concentration response function peaking at 0.281M. Dep...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： St John SJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminal nerve, which innervates the nasal epithelia of most jawed vertebrates, is believed to release neuropeptides that modulate activity of sensory receptor neurons. The terminal nerve usually contains gonadotropin-releasing hormone as well as at least one other peptide that has not been characterized, but whic...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Park D,Zawacki SR,Eisthen HL

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glomeruli, neuropilar structures composed of olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) axon terminals and central neuron dendrites, are a common feature of olfactory systems. Typically, ORN axons segregate into glomeruli based on odor specificity, making glomeruli the basic unit for initial processing of odorant information. De...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Lipscomb BW,Tolbert LP

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity-dependent processes are important to olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) in several ways, such as cell survival and the specificity of axonal convergence. The identification of activity-dependent mRNAs has contributed to our understanding of OSN axon convergence, but has revealed surprisingly little about other ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Wang Q,Titlow WB,McClintock DA,Stromberg AJ,McClintock TS

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associative plasticity is a basic essential attribute of nervous systems. As shown by numerous reports, Drosophila is able to establish simple forms of appetitive and aversive olfactory associations at both larval and adult stages. Whereas most adult studies on aversive learning employed electric shock as a negative r...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Pauls D,Pfitzenmaier JE,Krebs-Wheaton R,Selcho M,Stocker RF,Thum AS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acipenserids, crypt cells (CCs) have only been observed in juvenile specimens, and it has not been clarified whether they differentiate along with olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) during the lecithotrophic stage or during later development stages. Furthermore, no detailed optical microscopy (OM) or electron micros...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Camacho S,Ostos-Garrido MV,Domezain A,Carmona R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavor and texture contribute to the perception of creaminess in dairy products, but the nature of this interaction is not well understood. Previous studies on the genetic ability to perceive the bitter compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) reveal the existence of individual differences in creaminess perception. The ob...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Kirkmeyer SV,Tepper BJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of task duration on odor discrimination in aging was studied. Twenty-seven young male adults and 24 young female adults between 18 and 30 years of age, and 17 older male adults between 45 and 65 years of age completed an odor discrimination task. The odor discrimination task consisted of two parts of 16 tri...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Hulshoff Pol HE,Hijman R,Baaré WF,van Eekelen S,van Ree JM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00