Journal
CHEMICAL SENSES
Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 529-531Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjp030
Keywords
behavior; human; pheromone; vomeronasal
Funding
- NIDCD NIH HHS [DC 005813, DC 00044] Funding Source: Medline
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Recently, Foltan and Sedy proposed a hypothesis stating that the adult human VNO is integral to the prevention of inappropriate mate selection. In this commentary, we address the authors' assumption that humans have a functional VNO, that pheromones are detected exclusively by the VNO, and that human pheromones are responsible for negative stimuli during mate selection. After examining the published literature on human vomeronasal function, we argue that their hypothesis is critically flawed. We offer a brief review of the adult human VNO in support of our argument.
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