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Human pheromones8
  • But further research - such as a study suggesting that women who applied armpit secretions donated by other women {above} their upper lips had sex more {regularly/weekly} led Cutler to extrapolate that human pheromones attract members of the opposite sex. (athenainstitute.com)
  • Athena Institute is a biomedical research organization founded by Dr. Winnifred Cutler, the biologist who co-discovered human pheromones in 1986. (athenainstitute.com)
  • three main putative human pheromones have been identified: androstenone, androstenol and estratetraenol. (truepheromones.com)
  • Although it is not known for certain whether humans produce pheromones , several compounds have been identified as putative human pheromones. (truepheromones.com)
  • Although there is evidence that suggests certain chemicals might act as human pheromones, more research needs to be done before we can draw any definitive conclusions on this topic. (truepheromones.com)
  • James Vaughn Kohl was the first to accurately conceptualize human pheromones, and began presenting his findings to the scientific community in 1992. (perfumingthemind.com)
  • Both editions of their book " The Scent of Eros: Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality " offer an accurate conceptualization of mammalian pheromones, including human pheromones. (microrna.pro)
  • detailed how human pheromones influence the development of heterosexual preferences. (microrna.pro)
Behavior and physiology5
  • Dr. McGlone's first faculty appointment was at the University of Wyoming in 1981 where he was the first Frank Guggenheim Fellow awarded to an Animal Scientist for studies of pig behavior and physiology. (ttu.edu)
  • He maintains an active research program in farm animal welfare, behavior and physiology. (ttu.edu)
  • Mating has profound effects on honey bee queen behavior and physiology. (confex.com)
  • The notion of some sort of menstrual magnet formed in the early '70s when psychologist Martha McClintock published research claiming that women in close proximity gave off chemical signals, called pheromones, which could impact behavior and physiology. (premierhealth.com)
  • Pheromones can have a variety of effects on behavior and physiology. (luvelleya.co)
Signals5
  • These synthetic pheromones are copies of certain natural substances released by organisms as communication signals. (omri.org)
  • While pheromones carry information from one individual to another of the same species, allelochemicals are semiochemicals that carry signals from one species to a different species . (omri.org)
  • Plant odorants interfere with detection of sex pheromone signals by male Heliothis virescens. (mpg.de)
  • Pheromones are chemical signals that animals use to communicate with one another. (truepheromones.com)
  • pheromones are chemical signals released by an animal to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species. (alpineanimalhospital.com)
Olfactory7
  • If others do not understand something specific about olfactory/pheromonal primacy versus cognition in species from microbes to man, why have I not seen any questions about my representations of nutrient chemical-dependent and pheromone-dependent behavior or about the context (adaptive evolution via ecological, social, neurogenic, and socio-cognitive niche construction)? (rna-mediated.com)
  • Historically, olfaction has been perceived as being of limited importance for humans, but recent research has documented that not only do humans have sensitive olfactory abilities, but also odors have the potential to influence our physiology and behavior. (perfumingthemind.com)
  • This chapter reviews research on olfactory communication among humans, focusing on the effects of male bodily odors on female physiology and behavior. (perfumingthemind.com)
  • While some people might refer to scent, animal attraction, and chemistry when discussing olfactory cues, pheromones, and animal behavior, researchers like Kohl now equate the terms olfactory/pheromonal input and pheromones. (microrna.pro)
  • This consolidation of equivalent terms occurred because mammalian pheromones were repeatedly found to be volatile and processed by the main olfactory system (MOS). (microrna.pro)
  • The MOS / AOS dichotomy, which was once exemplified through the use of terms like either odors or pheromones, gave way to use of the terms "olfactory (pheromonal)" and " olfactory/pheromonal . (microrna.pro)
  • Since the behavioral responses of male moth to pheromone stimuli are determined by olfactory receptor cells housed in antennal trichoid sensilla [ 10 ], the aim of the study was evaluation of peripheral sensitivity to pheromone components by means of electroantennogramm (EAG) and behavioral wind tunnel responses of the O. nubilalis males originating from Gomel region. (bio-conferences.org)
Link between pheromones2
  • In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers found that exposure to male pheromones increased activity in the female brain's reward center, suggesting a link between pheromones and sexual attraction. (luvelleya.co)
  • Those researchers who do not recognize the importance of LH as a physiological link between pheromones and behavior, may not understand the physiology of mammalian reproduction or of mammalian sexual behavior. (microrna.pro)
Insect pheromones5
  • Insect pheromones are neurotransmitters that serve the chemical communication between individuals of an insect species. (wikipedia.org)
  • The agriculture and forestry industries use insect pheromones commercially in pest control using insect traps to prevent egg laying and in practicing the mating disruption. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is expected that insect pheromones can also contribute in this way to the control of insect-borne infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever or African trypanosomiasis. (wikipedia.org)
  • The classification of intraspecific pheromones in the group of semiochemicals, in other words, neurotransmitters that serve communication between organisms, is shown in the following diagram: Karlson further divided them into the sense of smell and the oral-acting insect pheromones according to the mode of reception. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vincent Dethier divided insect pheromones into six categories according to their general behavior-triggering effects. (wikipedia.org)
Term pheromones1
  • Adolf Butenandt and Peter Karlson proposed the term pheromones in 1959 for substances that serve intraspecific communication. (wikipedia.org)
Types of Pheromones1
Releaser6
  • In 1963, Edward O. Wilson, who had discovered ant trace pheromones the year before, and William H. Bossert introduced the concepts of releaser and primer pheromones. (wikipedia.org)
  • Releaser pheromones, which are usually perceived olfactorily, cause an instantaneously observable behavioral reaction, whereas primer pheromones, which are often oral, trigger physiological changes in the recipient. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are four categories of pheromones: releaser, signaler, modulator and primer. (truepheromones.com)
  • Pheromones can be divided into four main types: releaser, signaler, modulator, and primer pheromones. (truepheromones.com)
  • Releaser pheromones elicit immediate responses in other animals such as fear or aggression. (truepheromones.com)
  • In honeybee colonies, there are pheromones like the alarm pheromone that cause immediate behavioural responses (called releaser pheromones) and others that trigger physiological changes like hormones do (called primer pheromone). (esc-sec.ca)
Biochemistry7
Inducing sexual maturation1
  • Lastly, primer pheromones have long-term effects on the body, such as inducing sexual maturation or changing reproductive cycles. (truepheromones.com)
Responses5
  • According to this, pheromones are "Substances released externally by one individual that elicit specific responses in another individual of the same species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Calcium responses to pheromones and plant odours in the antennal lobe of the male and female moth Heliothis virescens. (mpg.de)
  • Pheromones are chemicals that trigger a variety of biological responses. (athenainstitute.com)
  • 1990). Characterization, synthesis, and behavioral responses to the sex attractiveness pheromones of red‑sided garter snakes ( Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis ). (oregonstate.edu)
  • The resilience of fish, comprehended from stress and calcium physiology, explains recent radiations and invasions and contributes to the Animal Stress Responses theme of the Institute for Water and Wetland Research . (ru.nl)
Natural pheromones2
  • However, our natural pheromones go largely unnoticed due to frequent bathing, antiperspirants, layers of clothing and a multitude of body sprays and other fragrances. (dramend.com)
  • Our luxurious fragrance is designed to enhance your natural pheromones, making you feel more attractive and desirable than ever before. (luvelleya.co)
Produce pheromones2
Peptide pheromone2
  • This is the first report of a peptide pheromone precursor in vertebrates. (wiley.com)
  • Mate attraction in Aplysia involves long-distance water-borne signaling via the secretion of the peptide pheromone attractin from the exocrine albumen gland during egg laying. (elsevierpure.com)
Kohl3
  • During this time Diamond, Binstock and Kohl (1996) linked pheromones both to the genetic and to the epigenetic mechanisms that are involved in the development of mammalian sexual behavior. (microrna.pro)
  • Using the same model, Kohl (2007) detailed the evolution of the mechanism that directly links pheromones to the development of typical and atypical sexual preferences across species, from yeasts to primates. (microrna.pro)
  • For example, Kohl owns the internet domain pheromones.com and has maintained it as an information resource since its 1996 inception, while also promoting the science behind the development of pheromone-enhanced fragrance products. (microrna.pro)
Pharmacology1
Reproductive1
  • These pheromones are released to attract a mate and can signal fertility, sexual readiness, and reproductive status. (luvelleya.co)
Semiochemicals1
  • Pheromones are semiochemicals that influence the physiology or behavior of members of the same species . (omri.org)
Epigenetic1
  • They also address contrarian opinions and extend to human females a eusocial insect model for the epigenetic effects of diet and of pheromones on hormone-mediated gene expression during behavioral development. (perfumingthemind.com)
Animal behavior1
  • His research interests are in the science of animal behavior, physiology and welfare ranging from appropriate housing and production systems for pigs to brain and immune mechanisms underlying stress. (ttu.edu)
Substances2
Yeast pheromone2
  • The yeast pheromone pathway has been extensively characterized, and is an ideal system for studying transcriptional regulation. (nih.gov)
  • Genome-wide transcript profiling was used to monitor signal transduction during yeast pheromone response. (nih.gov)
Kairomone1
  • There are instances where the same chemical could be classified as an allomone, kairomone or pheromone depending on its circumstantial effects. (omri.org)
Mammalian6
Chemicals3
  • Male butterflies use a wide range of chemicals as sex pheromones, for example pyrrolizidine alkaloids, terpenes and aromatic compounds such as benzaldehyde. (wikipedia.org)
  • Semiochemical" is the general term used to describe chemicals emitted by an organism that influence the physiology or behavior of other organisms. (omri.org)
  • Pheromones are chemicals that are produced and released by organisms to communicate with others of their species. (luvelleya.co)
Physiological1
  • We investigated the physiological activity and morphology of downstream protocerebral neurons that responded to antennal stimulation with single pheromone components and their mixtures at various concentration ratios. (elsevierpure.com)
19591
  • In 1959, the German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Adolf Butenandt identified and synthesized the unsaturated fatty alcohol bombycol, the sex pheromone of the domestic silk moth (Bombyx mori), as the first known insect pheromone. (wikipedia.org)
Stimuli1
  • It is involved in the perception of chemical stimuli, being implicated also in the detection of pheromones. (frontiersin.org)
Species8
  • When pheromones were originally considered for inclusion on the National List in 1995, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) Technical Advisory Panel report noted that they disrupt mating patterns of males of target species, and specifically states that the substance "does not affect other species. (omri.org)
  • Pheromones evolved over time as a way to propagate the species, by helping create unbridled lust and passion. (dramend.com)
  • These pheromones are used to attract others of the same species to a common location, such as a food source. (luvelleya.co)
  • Similarly, exposure to alarm pheromones can trigger a response of fear or flight in other members of the same species. (luvelleya.co)
  • Our results are consistent with a validated, unaltered, decades-old, across-species concept of pheromones. (perfumingthemind.com)
  • The species is divided into two pheromone races defined by their major sex pheromone stereoisomer component, Z (cis) or E (trans) 11-tetradecenyl acetate that they use for mate finding [ 3 ]. (bio-conferences.org)
  • Situation in Europe appears more complex, since together with two pheromone strains of ECB also the parent species, Ostrinia scapulalis , which employs the same pheromone system, is present [ 6 , 7 ]. (bio-conferences.org)
  • In this project I will be working on several species of bark and ambrosia beetles and investigate how insect olfaction has evolved in relation to pheromone communication and fungal symbiosis. (lu.se)
Kairomones3
Attract3
  • For example, beekeepers use an artificially produced Nasanov pheromone containing terpenes such as geraniol and citral to attract bees to an unused hive. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pheromones are commonly used in traps and lures, attract-and-kill systems, and in confusion and disruption of insect mating. (omri.org)
  • This formulation to attract men contains a specific group of pheromones that exploits a powerful biological trigger hardwired into every man. (dramend.com)
Opposite sex2
  • COMMENT FROM ATHENA INSTITUTE: Both Athena Pheromone 10:13 tm for women and Athena Pheromone 10X tm for men are cosmetics that can increase your attractiveness to the opposite sex. (athenainstitute.com)
  • Pheromones are natural airborne chemical hormones that our bodies emit to arouse the opposite sex and draw them in. (dramend.com)
Honey bees1
  • Seasonal variation in the titers and biosynthesis of the primer pheromone ethyl oleate in honey bees, Journal of Insect Physiology, 58 (8) 1121. (esc-sec.ca)
Gene expression1
  • Genetic manipulations allowed analysis of changes in gene expression underlying pheromone signaling, cell cycle control, and polarized morphogenesis. (nih.gov)
Feliway2
  • Feliway consists of feline facial pheromones (deposited when cats rub their cheeks/face on things), and have a general calming effect that helps neutralize the urge to urine mark. (alpineanimalhospital.com)
  • Ceva's key companion animal products include the Vectra® line of parasiticides, Adaptil™ (formerly D.A.P.) and Feliway® pheromone behavior aids and Senilife® neuroprotection for aging pets. (goodnewsforpets.com)
Frontiers1
Hormones1
  • These two pheromones are naturally found in the vaginal secretions of ovulating women and have shown in laboratory tests to spike a mans circulating testosterone and other libido hormones within 2 seconds of exposure. (dramend.com)
Primer1
  • From previous work, it seemed that ethyl oleate functions as a primer pheromone, produced by foragers, that delays the maturation of nurse bees into foragers. (esc-sec.ca)
Allomone1
  • For example, female moths emit a sex attractant chemical (pheromone) that is also emitted by the American bola spiders that prey on male moths (allomone). (omri.org)
Traps1
  • Recent data revealed ineffectiveness of pheromone traps for ECB in the northern area of maize growing [ 9 ]. (bio-conferences.org)
Secrete1
  • Although the atrial gland is the last major exocrine organ to make contact with eggs before they are laid, the gland does not appear to secrete water-borne peptide pheromones during egg laying. (elsevierpure.com)
Glands1
  • They communicate instead with "antenna" and "antennule" gestures and physical posturing as well as by pheromones emitted by certain glands located at regular intervals along the abdomen. (orionsarm.com)
20021
  • Their 2002 paperback adds an epilogue with additional citations to support the fact that "… many researchers recognize convincing evidence that pheromones do in fact alter levels of LH in other humans" (p. 277). (microrna.pro)
Biology3
  • He has published a number of studies that have resulted in industry changes in areas of sow housing, transportation, castration & tail docking and pheromone biology. (ttu.edu)
  • The book strives to be comprehensive,and the array of topics covered is impressive - from insect developmental biology to all major organ and sensory systems to muscle physiology and reproduction. (biologists.com)
  • Pheromones have been a tool of biology for millions of years and play a key role in the natural mating instincts for both men and women. (dramend.com)
Blend2
  • Each product in the Flirty Little Secret Trio is infused with Booty Parlor's proprietary blend of Pheromones. (bootyparlor.com)
  • Our unique formula is infused with a powerful blend of pheromones, designed to stimulate the senses and elicit a response from those around you. (luvelleya.co)
Individual's2
Bombyx1
  • Detection and removal of an artefact fatty acid from the binding site of recombinant Bombyx mori pheromone-binding protein. (mpg.de)
Biosynthesis1
  • Biosynthesis of the insect pheromone (S)-4-methyl-3-heptanone. (mpg.de)
Journal4
Stimulation1
  • This stabilization through protein-protein interactions creates a large pool of Ste12 that is rapidly activated following pheromone stimulation. (nih.gov)