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The Smell of Age: Perception and Discrimination of Body Odors of Different Ages

Our natural body odor goes through several stages of age-dependent changes in chemical composition as we grow older. Similar changes have been reported for several animal species and are thought to facilitate age discrimination of an individual based on body odors, alone. We sought to determine whet...

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Autores principales: Mitro, Susanna, Gordon, Amy R., Olsson, Mats J., Lundström, Johan N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22666457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038110