Chemical SensesPub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjaf018
Nouhaila Bouguiyoud, Philippe Litaudon, Johannes Frasnelli, Samuel Garcia, Belkacem Messaoudi, Anne-Marie Mouly, Syrina Al Aïn, Emmanuelle Courtiol
{"title":"Odor-evoked respiratory responses throughout development in sighted and blind mice.","authors":"Nouhaila Bouguiyoud, Philippe Litaudon, Johannes Frasnelli, Samuel Garcia, Belkacem Messaoudi, Anne-Marie Mouly, Syrina Al Aïn, Emmanuelle Courtiol","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjaf018","DOIUrl":"10.1093/chemse/bjaf018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Congenital blindness affects olfactory function depending on the developmental stage. However, when studying the ontogeny of olfactory abilities, not all behaviors are expressed at every age making the longitudinal comparisons difficult. Odor-evoked respiratory responses, which are unlearned and do not require complex motor coordination, may serve as sensitive measures of olfactory abilities throughout ontogeny. Using a noninvasive measure of respiration in an olfactory perceptual paradigm, we assessed odor-evoked respiratory responses in a model of congenital blindness at 3 ages, infant, juvenile, and adult, in the same mice and in both males and females. We demonstrated the differential outcome of 2 respiratory parameters (i.e. frequency and amplitude) in a mouse model of congenital blindness. We showed that blind mice have similar olfactory abilities than sighted mice throughout ontogeny but display enhanced sniffing frequency and amplitude, starting at the juvenile age for the latter one, that may help them better explore their environment. We also demonstrated that respiratory frequency is a robust index of age and of olfactory detection, habituation, and discrimination at all ages. On the other side, the respiratory amplitude does not provide a proxy of olfactory performance at all ages, however, it does highlight differences between sexes and phenotypes associated with visual deprivation. To conclude, our data highlight that respiratory parameters can be used as a complementary approach to assess olfactory performance throughout development and provide an index of olfactory plasticity.</p>","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144246657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjaf023
Anna Oleszkiewicz, Ilona Croy, Thomas Hummel
{"title":"The impact of olfactory loss on quality of life: a 2025 review.","authors":"Anna Oleszkiewicz, Ilona Croy, Thomas Hummel","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjaf023","DOIUrl":"10.1093/chemse/bjaf023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For a long time, the sense of smell was considered the neglected stepbrother of human sensory abilities, and the loss of smell has received little attention. This perception changed dramatically with the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to millions of people losing their sense of smell, and some never recovering. COVID-19 not only increased general awareness of olfactory disorders but also accelerated research into the role of smell in nonverbal communication and mental health. This review aims to summarize the literature on the impact of olfactory disorders on quality of life. Starting from the functions of olfaction in healthy individuals, we will briefly describe the most common olfactory disorders and their effect on an individual's life, including nutrition and eating behaviors, social and psychological well-being, and exposure to environmental hazards. Consequences of olfactory loss permeate many spheres of daily life. On average, dysosmia has a moderate impact on quality of life, though for some patients the effects can be severe.</p>","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12302507/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144728305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjaf030
Timothy S McClintock, Loïc Briand, Scott J McGrane
{"title":"Chemosensory receptors: the keys to unlocking perception of the chemical world.","authors":"Timothy S McClintock, Loïc Briand, Scott J McGrane","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjaf030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaf030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":"50 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144944641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2024-12-14DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjae042
{"title":"Editor-in-Chief's Note - Thank you to Reviewers.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjae042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjae042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142823992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjae034
Jessica G Nicanor-Carreón, Blair Rowitz, M Yanina Pepino
{"title":"Taste And Odor Interactions After Metabolic Surgery","authors":"Jessica G Nicanor-Carreón, Blair Rowitz, M Yanina Pepino","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjae034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjae034","url":null,"abstract":"Most patients report “taste” changes after undergoing metabolic surgeries. Yet, most studies that used validated sensory evaluation techniques, including ours, found no changes in perceived taste intensity from before to after surgery. However, we assessed participants with pure gustatory stimuli and after an overnight fast, which raises questions about whether patients’ self-reported “taste” changes are due to conflating changes in retronasal smell/“flavor” with taste changes or whether they only manifest during the fed state. To investigate this, we conducted a cross-sectional study comparing sensory responses in women who underwent metabolic surgery 2-6 years ago (n=15) with two nonoperated control groups: one with a body mass index (BMI) equivalent (n=15) and one with a healthy BMI (n=15). Participants attended two sessions, one fed and one fasted. Using a sip-and-spit method, women tasted liquid samples containing gustatory and olfactory stimuli and puddings with varying fat content with and without nose clips. They used separate general labeled magnitude scales to rate their perceived intensity of taste, smell, flavor, and pleasantness. Mixed ANOVAs indicated that the surgery and BMI equivalent groups rated retronasal smell intensity of coffee stronger than the healthy BMI group (P≤0.015). However, there were no differences in taste/flavor intensity or liking ratings among groups. Additionally, feeding conditions did not significantly affect perceived intensity ratings. Our findings suggest that changes in the sensory-discriminatory component of taste or taste-odor interactions are not significant contributors to dietary modifications following metabolic surgery.","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142263343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjae018
Halim Maaroufi
{"title":"Novel Gurmarin-like Peptides from Gymnema sylvestre and their Interactions with the Sweet Taste Receptor T1R2/T1R3","authors":"Halim Maaroufi","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjae018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjae018","url":null,"abstract":"Gymnema sylvestre (GS) is a traditional medicinal plant known for its hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects. Gurmarin (hereafter Gur-1) is the only known active peptide in GS. Gur-1 has a suppressive sweet taste effect in rodents but no or only a very weak effect in humans. Here, eight gurmarin-like peptides (Gur-2 to Gur-9) and their isoforms are reported in the GS transcriptome. The molecular mechanism of sweet taste suppression by Gur-1 is still largely unknown. Therefore, the complete architecture of human and mouse sweet taste receptors T1R2/T1R3 and their interaction with Gur-1 to Gur-9 were predicted by AlphaFold-Multimer (AF-M) and validated. Only Gur-1 and Gur-2 interact with the T1R2/T1R3 receptor. Indeed, Gur-1 and Gur-2 bind to the region of the cysteine-rich domain (CRD) and the transmembrane domain (TMD) of the mouse T1R2 subunit. In contrast, only Gur-2 binds to the TMD of the human T1R2 subunit. This result suggests that Gur-2 may have a suppressive sweet taste effect in humans. Furthermore, AF-M predicted that Gα-gustducin, a protein involved in sweet taste transduction, interacts with the intracellular domain of the T1R2 subunit. These results highlight an unexpected diversity of gurmarin-like peptides in GS and provide the complete predicted architecture of the human and mouse sweet taste receptor with the putative binding sites of Gur-1, Gur-2 and Gα-gustducin. In addition, gurmarin-like peptides may serve as promising drug scaffolds for the development of antidiabetic molecules.","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140841271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjae012
Rolando D Moreira-Soto, Mohammed A Khallaf, Bill S Hansson, Markus Knaden
{"title":"How conspecific and allospecific eggs and larvae drive oviposition preference in Drosophila","authors":"Rolando D Moreira-Soto, Mohammed A Khallaf, Bill S Hansson, Markus Knaden","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjae012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjae012","url":null,"abstract":"Where to lay the eggs is a crucial decision for females as it influences the success of their offspring. Female flies prefer to lay eggs on food already occupied and consumed by larvae, which facilitates social feeding, but potentially could also lead to detrimental interactions between species. Whether females can modulate their attraction to cues associated with different species is unknown. Here, we analyzed the chemical profiles of eggs and larvae of 16 Drosophila species, and tested whether Drosophila flies would be attracted to larvae-treated food or food with eggs from 6 different Drosophila species. The chemical analyses revealed that larval profiles from different species are strongly overlapping, while egg profiles exhibit significant species specificity. Correspondingly, female flies preferred to lay eggs where they detected whatever species’ larval cues, while we found a significant oviposition preference only for eggs of some species but not others. Our findings suggest that both larval and egg cues present at a given substrate can drive oviposition preference in female flies.","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140582924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjae016
Shaoyang Wang, Heather E Smyth, Sandra M Olarte Mantilla, Jason R Stokes, Paul A Smith
{"title":"Astringency and its sub-qualities: A review of astringency mechanisms and methods for measuring saliva lubrication","authors":"Shaoyang Wang, Heather E Smyth, Sandra M Olarte Mantilla, Jason R Stokes, Paul A Smith","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjae016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjae016","url":null,"abstract":"Astringency is an important mouthfeel attribute that influences the sensory experiences of many food and beverage products. While salivary lubricity loss and increased oral friction were previously believed to be the only astringency mechanisms, recent research has demonstrated that non-tactile oral receptors can trigger astringency by responding to astringents without mechanical stimulation. Various human factors have also been identified that affect individual responses to astringents. This article presents a critical review of the key research milestones contributing to the current understanding of astringency mechanisms and the instrumental approaches used to quantify perceived astringency intensity. Although various chemical assays or physical measures mimic in-mouth processes involved in astringent mouthfeel, this review highlights how one chemical or physical approach can only provide a single measure of astringency determined by a specific mechanism. Subsequently, using a single measurement to predict astringency perception is overly idealistic. Astringency has not been quantified beyond the loss of saliva lubrication; therefore, non-tactile receptor-based responses must also be explored. An important question remains about whether astringency is a single perception or involves distinct sub-qualities such as pucker, drying, and roughness. Although these sub-quality lexicons have been frequently cited, most studies currently view astringency as a single perception rather than dividing it into sub-qualities and investigating the potentially independent mechanisms of each. Addressing these knowledge gaps should be an important priority for future research.","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140582883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjae015
Roger Emter, Christel Merillat, Sandro Dossenbach, Andreas Natsch
{"title":"The trilogy of human musk receptors: Linking receptor activation, genotype and sensory perception","authors":"Roger Emter, Christel Merillat, Sandro Dossenbach, Andreas Natsch","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjae015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjae015","url":null,"abstract":"The scent of musk plays a unique role in the history of perfumery. Musk odorants comprise six diverse chemical classes and perception difference in strength and quality among human panelists have long puzzled the field of olfaction research. Three odorant receptors (OR) had recently been described for musk odorants: OR5AN1, OR1N2 and OR5A2. High functional expression of the difficult-to-express human OR5A2 was achieved by a modification of the C-terminal domain and the link between sensory perception and receptor activation for the trilogy of these receptors and their key genetic variants was investigated: All three receptors detect only musky smelling compounds among 440 commercial fragrance compounds. OR5A2 is the key receptor for the classes of polycyclic and linear musks and for most macrocylic lactones. A single P172L substitution reduces sensitivity of OR5A2 around 50-fold. In parallel, human panelists homozygous for this mutation have an around 40 – 60-fold higher sensory detection threshold for selective OR5A2 ligands. For macrocyclic lactones, OR5A2 could further be proven as the key OR by a strong correlation between in vitro activation and the sensory detection threshold in vivo. OR5AN1 is the dominant receptor for the perception of macrocyclic ketones such as muscone and some nitromusks, as panelists with a mutant OR5A2 are still equally sensitive to these ligands. Finally, OR1N2 appears to be an additional receptor involved in the perception of the natural (E)-ambrettolide. This study for the first time links OR activation to sensory perception and genetic polymorphisms for this unique class of odorants.","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140582936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chemical SensesPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjad053
Stephanie Brener, Kobi Snitz, Noam Sobel
{"title":"An electronic nose can identify humans by the smell of their ear.","authors":"Stephanie Brener, Kobi Snitz, Noam Sobel","doi":"10.1093/chemse/bjad053","DOIUrl":"10.1093/chemse/bjad053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Terrestrial mammals identify conspecifics by body odor. Dogs can also identify humans by body odor, and in some instances, humans can identify other humans by body odor as well. Despite the potential for a powerful biometric tool, smell has not been systematically used for this purpose. A question arising in the application of smell to biometrics is which bodily odor source should we measure. Breath is an obvious candidate, but the associated humidity can challenge many sensing devices. The armpit is also a candidate source, but it is often doused in cosmetics. Here, we test the hypothesis that the ear may provide an effective source for odor-based biometrics. The inside of the ear has relatively constant humidity, cosmetics are not typically applied inside the ear, and critically, ears contain cerumen, a potent source of volatiles. We used an electronic nose to identify 12 individuals within and across days, using samples from the armpit, lower back, and ear. In an identification setting where chance was 8.33% (1 of 12), we found that we could identify a person by the smell of their ear within a day at up to ~87% accuracy (~10 of 12, binomial P < 10-5), and across days at up to ~22% accuracy (~3 of 12, binomial P < 0.012). We conclude that humans can indeed be identified from the smell of their ear, but the results did not imply a consistent advantage over other bodily odor sources.</p>","PeriodicalId":9771,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Senses","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10810274/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139491077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}