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Quantitative Validation of the

Chemosensory perception (2014-06-03)
Melanie Y Denzer, Stefan Gailer, David W Kern, L Philip Schumm, Norbert Thuerauf, Johannes Kornhuber, Andrea Buettner, Jonathan Beauchamp
ABSTRACT

Odorant pens are used by medical practitioners and researchers to assess olfactory dysfunction. Despite their routine use, there are currently no data on the gas-phase odorant concentrations released from the pen tips or whether these concentrations scale linearly with the aqueous-phase concentrations inside the pens. The commercially available Sniffin' Sticks odor threshold test containing

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