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Article Dans Une Revue Psychoneuroendocrinology Année : 2004

Sniffing a human sex-steroid derived compound affects mood and autonomic arousal in a dose-dependent manner

T Tsutsui
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R Khan
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R Levenson
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N Sobel
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The effects of sniffing different concentrations of the human sex-steroid derived compound 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND) on autonomic nervous system function and mood were measured in 60 subjects. The effects were sex-specific and concentration-dependent. Only high concentrations of AND (0.00625 M) increased positive mood (p < 0.03) and decreased negative mood (p < 0.05) in women compared to men, and had sympathetic-like effects in women (p < 0.003), and parasympathetic-like effects in men (p < 0.05). These findings further implicate AND in chemical communication between humans, but pose questions as to the path by which AND is transduced, whether through chemical sensing or transdermal diffusion.

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hal-02343745 , version 1 (03-11-2019)

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M. Bensafi, T Tsutsui, R Khan, R Levenson, N Sobel. Sniffing a human sex-steroid derived compound affects mood and autonomic arousal in a dose-dependent manner. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2004, 29 (10), pp.1290-1299. ⟨10.1016/j.psyneuen.2004.03.007⟩. ⟨hal-02343745⟩
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