abstract：:In working and practical contexts, dogs rely upon their ability to discriminate a target odor from distracting odors and other sensory stimuli. Using awake functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 18 dogs, we examined the neural mechanisms underlying odor discrimination between 2 odors and a mixture of the odor...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Prichard A,Chhibber R,King J,Athanassiades K,Spivak M,Berns GS

更新日期：2020-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Honeybees rely on nectar as their main source of carbohydrates. Sucrose, glucose, and fructose are the main components of plant nectars. Intriguingly, honeybees express only 3 putative sugar receptors (AmGr1, AmGr2, and AmGr3), which is in stark contrast to many other insects and vertebrates. The sugar receptors are o...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Değirmenci L,Geiger D,Rogé Ferreira FL,Keller A,Krischke B,Beye M,Steffan-Dewenter I,Scheiner R

更新日期：2020-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience is an essential factor informing food choice. Eating food generates enduring odor-taste associations that link an odor with a taste's quality and hedonic value (pleasantness/unpleasantness) and creates the perception of a congruent odor-taste combination. Previous human psychophysical experiments demonstrat...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： McQueen KA,Fredericksen KE,Samuelsen CL

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Taste perception is important for animals to take adequate nutrients and avoid toxins for their survival. Appetitive and aversive behaviors are produced by value evaluation of taste and taste expectation caused by other sensations. The value evaluation, coupled with a cue presentation, produces outcome expectation and...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Takei K,Fujita K,Kashimori Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

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：:To date, most studies on the relationship between chemosensory performance and quality of life have focused on orthonasal measures of olfactory function. In the current investigation, we examined the predictive value of orthonasal and flavor identification indices of olfactory function on a wide spectrum of health and...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Oleszkiewicz A,Park D,Resler K,Draf J,Schulze A,Zang Y,Hähner A,Hummel T

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of individuals or classes of individuals plays an important role in the communication systems of many mammals. The ability of otariid (i.e., fur seal and sea lion) females to locate and identify their offspring in colonies after returning from regular foraging trips is essential to successful pup rearing. ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Wierucka K,Barthes N,Pitcher BJ,Schaal B,Charrier I,Harcourt RG

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming to unravel interspecific differences in olfactory preferences, we performed comparative studies of odor valence in flies, mice, and humans. Our analysis suggests a model where flies and mice share similar olfactory preferences, but neither species share odor preferences with humans. This model contrasts with a ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Manoel D,Makhlouf M,Scialdone A,Saraiva LR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal inhalation is the basis of olfactory perception and drives neural activity in olfactory and limbic brain regions. Therefore, our ability to investigate the neural underpinnings of olfaction and respiration can only be as good as our ability to characterize features of respiratory behavior. However, recordings of...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Noto T,Zhou G,Schuele S,Templer J,Zelano C

更新日期：2018-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ability to perceive the bitter compound phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) is inherited via a dominant "taster" allele of the TAS2R38 gene, whereas inability is inherited via a recessive "non-taster" allele. This raises a question: Is the non-taster allele functionless, or does it mediate perception of compounds other than PTC...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Wooding SP

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying olfaction with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) poses various methodological challenges. This study aimed to investigate the effects of stimulation length and repetition time (TR) on the activation pattern of 4 olfactory brain regions: the anterior and the posterior piriform cortex, the orbitofron...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Georgiopoulos C,Witt ST,Haller S,Dizdar N,Zachrisson H,Engström M,Larsson EM

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Odors are inherently ambiguous and therefore susceptible to redundant sensory as well as context information. The identification of an odor object relies largely on visual input. Thus far, it is unclear whether visual and olfactory stimuli are indeed integrated at an early perceptual stage and which role the congruenc...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Amsellem S,Höchenberger R,Ohla K

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have indicated that the chemical cues from body odors (BOs) of donors experiencing negative emotions can influence the psychophysiological and behavioral response of the observers. However, these olfactory cues have been used mainly as contextual information for processing visual stimuli. Here, for the fi...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Ferreira J,Parma V,Alho L,Silva CF,Soares SC

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite long and intense research, some fundamental questions regarding representation of taste information in the brain still remain unanswered. This might in part be due to shortcomings of the established methods that limit the researcher either to thorough characterization of few elements or to analyze the response...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Töle J,Stolzenburg A,Tyree SM,Stähler F,Meyerhof W

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have reported that the umami taste of monosodium l-glutamate (MSG) and salty-smelling odors (e.g., soy sauce, bacon, sardines) enhance the perception of saltiness. This study aimed to investigate the neural basis of the enhancement of saltiness in human participants using functional near-infrared spec...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Onuma T,Maruyama H,Sakai N

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of obesity and obesity-related disorders such as type 2 diabetes (T2D) and metabolic syndrome has increased significantly in the past decades, reaching epidemic levels and therefore becoming a major health issue worldwide. Chronic overeating of highly palatable foods is one of the main responsible aspec...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Tarragon E,Moreno JJ

更新日期：2017-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Eating under distracted conditions such as viewing television is associated with overeating and weight gain. Following evidence from earlier findings, in this issue Hoffman-Hensel et al. report a study in which they investigated the influence of distraction on intensity perception of low and high caloric food odors an...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Veldhuizen MG

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Since starch is a significant part of human diet, its oral detection would be highly beneficial. This study was designed to determine whether starch or its degradation products can be tasted and what factors influence its perception. Subjects were asked 1) to taste 8% raw and cooked starch samples for 5, 15, and 35 s ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Lapis TJ,Penner MH,Balto AS,Lim J

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Anosmia and hyposmia, the inability or decreased ability to smell, is estimated to afflict 3-20% of the population. Risk of olfactory dysfunction increases with old age and may also result from chronic sinonasal diseases, severe head trauma, and upper respiratory infections, or neurodegenerative diseases. These disord...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Boesveldt S,Postma EM,Boak D,Welge-Luessen A,Schöpf V,Mainland JD,Martens J,Ngai J,Duffy VB

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies on taste acceptance have been conducted taste-by-taste and with a cross-sectional design. The aim of this study was to longitudinally evaluate the acceptance of sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami solutions, and a fat emulsion comparatively in a birth cohort from 3 to 20 months old. The acceptance of...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Schwartz C,Chabanet C,Szleper E,Feyen V,Issanchou S,Nicklaus S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taste sensitivity plays a major role in controlling feeding behavior, and alterations in feeding habit induced by changes in taste sensitivity can drive speciation. We investigated variability in taste preferences in wild-derived inbred lines from the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel. Preferences for di...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Uchizono S,Tanimura T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarettes are an often-used consumer product, and flavor is an important determinant of their product appeal. Cigarettes with strong nontobacco flavors are popular among young people, and may facilitate smoking initiation. Discriminating flavors in tobacco is important for regulation purposes, for instance to set upp...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Krüsemann EJ,Cremers JW,Visser WF,Punter PH,Talhout R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast number of detectable odors makes matching olfactory receptors (ORs) to their ligands a daunting task. Krautwurst and colleagues have hypothesized that this process can be simplified by focusing on those odorants that are perceptually relevant food odors. In this issue of Chemical Senses, they use this framewo...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Trimmer C,Mainland JD

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:Olfactory perception is highly variable from one person to another, as a function of individual and contextual factors. Here, we investigated the influence of 2 important factors of variation: culture and semantic information. More specifically, we tested whether cultural-specific knowledge and presence versus absence...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Ferdenzi C,Joussain P,Digard B,Luneau L,Djordjevic J,Bensafi M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of odors in the long-distance navigation of birds has elicited intense debate for more than half a century. Failure to resolve many of the issues fueling this debate is due at least in part to the absence of controls for a variety of non-specific effects that odors have on the navigational process. The presen...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Jorge PE,Marques PAM,Pinto BV,Phillips JB

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:The experiments had 2 main goals: 1) to add to the sparse literature on how retronasal aromas interact with bitter tastes, and 2) to determine whether modulation of taste intensity by aroma depends on temporal contiguity, as one might expect if flavor interactions depend on cross-modal binding (similar to object perce...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Isogai T,Wise PM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione, a natural substance, acts on calcium receptors on the tongue and is known to enhance basic taste sensations. However, the effects of glutathione on brain activity associated with taste sensation on the tongue have not been determined under standardized taste delivery conditions. In this study, we investig...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Goto TK,Yeung AW,Tanabe HC,Ito Y,Jung HS,Ninomiya Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito control is essential to protect humans from mosquito-borne diseases. The host recognition between mosquitoes and humans is achieved by the mosquito olfactory system. Antennal sensilla, which house olfactory receptor neurons, are responsible for detecting chemical cues from hosts. To deepen our understanding o...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Ye Z,Liu F,Liu N

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our olfactory sense plays an important role in eating behavior by modulating our food preferences and intake. However, hunger or satiety may also influence how we perceive odors. Albeit speculative, contradictory results found in the past may have resulted from confounding by type of meal that participants ate to indu...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Ramaekers MG,Verhoef A,Gort G,Luning PA,Boesveldt S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence has suggested that factors related to sensory perception may explain excess weight. The objective of this study was to consider multiple aspects while investigating the phenomenon of obesity. One goal was to compare taste acuity (taste threshold and density of fungiform papillae) in both normal weight ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Proserpio C,Laureati M,Bertoli S,Battezzati A,Pagliarini E

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult olfactory system undergoes experience-dependent plasticity to adapt to the olfactory environment. This plasticity may be accompanied by perceptual changes, including improved olfactory discrimination. Here, we assessed experience-dependent changes in the perception of a homologous aldehyde pair by testing mi...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Kass MD,Guang SA,Moberly AH,McGann JP

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory function assessment is an important screening tool and also may differentiate Parkinson's disease (PD) patients from other parkinsonisms, including nondegenerative ones, such as, normal pressure hydrocephalus, vascular, drug induced, or infectious parkinsonism. Several authors in different countries have rep...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Millar Vernetti P,Rossi M,Cerquetti D,Perez Lloret S,Merello M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arecoline, a major alkaloid in areca nuts, is involved in the pathogenesis of oral diseases. Mammalian taste buds are the structural unit for detecting taste stimuli in the oral cavity. The effects of arecoline on taste bud morphology are poorly understood. Arecoline was injected intraperitoneally (IP) into C57BL/6 mi...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Peng WH,Chau YP,Lu KS,Kung HN

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is one of the world most studied insects, the chemical compounds used in nestmate recognition, remains an open question. By exploiting the error prone recognition system of the honeybee, coupled with genotyping, we studied the correlation between cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profi...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Pradella D,Martin SJ,Dani FR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly agreed upon a strong link between emotion and olfaction. Odor-evoked memories are experienced as more emotional compared with verbal, visual, and tactile stimuli. Moreover, the emotional quality of odor cues increases memory performance, but contrary to this, odors are poor retrieval cues for verbal lab...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Bestgen AK,Schulze P,Kuchinke L

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies over the last 8 years have identified 3 potential channels that appear to release ATP from Type II cells in response to taste stimuli. These studies have taken different methodological approaches but have all provided data supporting their candidate channel as the ATP release channel. These potential channels ...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Medler KF

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported effects of temperature on sweet taste in humans have generally been small and inconsistent. Here, we describe 3 experiments that follow up a recent finding that cooling from 37 to 21 °C does not reduce the initial sweetness of sucrose but increases sweet taste adaptation. In experiment 1, subjects rated t...

journal_title：Chemical senses

authors： Green BG,Nachtigal D

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00