Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation explores the role of olfactory assessment in disease diagnosis.

Features:

• Provides an up-to-date review of chemosensory research in the medical, food, beverage, flavour, perfume, and energy industries.
• Examines the biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy of the olfactory, gustatory, and trigeminal chemosensory systems

Partial Contents

• Olfaction - anatomy and neurobiology
• Anatomy of the human nasal passages
• Morphology of the mammalian olfactory epithelium - form, fine structure, function, and pathology
• Olfactory mucosa - composition, enzymatic localization and metabolism
• Molecular neurobiology of olfactory transduction
• Neurogenesis in the adult olfactory neuroepithelium
• Developmental anatomy of the olfactory system
• Anatomy and neurochemistry of the olfactory bulb
• Central olfactory structures
• Sensory physiology of central olfactory pathways

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