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The threshold for the smell of acetone and its relationship to the ability to taste phenylthiocarbamate

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Individuelle Geruchsschwellenwerte für Azeton folgen einer trimodalen Kurve und stehen in Beziehung zur Fähigkeit, PTC zu schmecken. Diese Befunde deuten darauf hin, dass die Geruchsempfindlichkeitfür Azeton eine genetische Grundlage hat.

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  1. Metabolic Laboratory and Department of Medicine B, Hadassah-University Hospital and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    S. H. Blondheim & Lea Reznik

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  1. S. H. Blondheim
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Based on a report accepted by the Israel Ministry of Education in partial fulfillment of matriculation requirements ofLea Reznik, and constituting an extension of the work ofHenry Tabe.

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Blondheim, S.H., Reznik, L. The threshold for the smell of acetone and its relationship to the ability to taste phenylthiocarbamate. Experientia 27, 1282–1283 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02136687

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