Olfactory Discrimination Ability of Human Subjects for Ten Pairs of Enantiomers
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Olfactory discrimination ability of human subjects for ten pairs of enantiomers.
We tested the ability of human subjects to distinguish between enantiomers, i.e. odorants which are identical except for chirality. In a forced-choice triangular test procedure 20 subjects were repeatedly presented with 10 enantiomeric odor pairs and asked to identify the bottle containing the odd stimulus. We found (i) that as a group, the subjects were only able to significantly discriminate ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chemical Senses
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1464-3553
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.2.161