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Trial reportChemical senses2010

Dynamics of nasal irritation from pulsed homologous alcohols.

Paul M Wise, Kai Zhao, Charles J Wysocki

Open access · greenAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Chemical senses, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Paul M WiseMonell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308, USA. pwise@monell.org
Kai Zhao
Charles J Wysocki
Monell Chemical Senses Center · US

Funding

Sensory/Medical CoreP50DC006760 · NIDCD · MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER · PI BEAUCHAMP, GARY K · 2004 to 2009
$8.6M
Temporal Integration in Nasal LateralizationR03ES013969 · NIEHS · MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER · PI WISE, PAUL M · 2006 to 2007
$146k
NIDCD NIH HHS 5P50DC006760NIEHS NIH HHS 5R03ES013969
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Relatively, few studies have focused on how nasal irritation changes over time. To simulate the rhythm of natural respiration, subjects received 3-s pulses of volatile organic compounds interspersed with 3-s pulses of clean air. Each trial, subjects received 9 pulses of a chemical vapor over about 1 min. Subjects rated nasal irritation from each pulse using magnitude estimation. Within a trial, compound and concentration were fixed. Compound (ethanol, n-butanol, or n-hexanol) and concentration (4 levels for each compound) varied across trials. For all stimuli, rated irritation decreased over time (adaptation). Plots of log-rated intensity versus elapsed time were approximately linear (intensity decreased by a fixed ratio per unit time). Interestingly, the slopes of intensity versus time functions differed very little: Regardless of concentration and compound, rated irritation decreased by about 32% over the 9 pulses. The basic mechanism of short-term adaptation may be the same for the 3 alcohols studied. Regardless, these data suggest that very simple models might be able to describe some aspects of perceptual dynamics quite well.

Indexed as

1-ButanolAdultAlcoholsAnalysis of VarianceFemaleHexanolsHumansIrritantsMaleNasal MucosaSensory ThresholdsYoung Adult1-Butanol1-hexanolAlcoholsHexanolsIrritants

Identifiers

PMID20858746
PMCPMC2980991
OpenAlexW2124142236

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