These results showed that the receptor responsible for detecting carbon dioxide also detects
skin odorants.
The scientists tested the response of these mosquitoes to
skin odorants by placing them in a wind tunnel with a plate of glass beads that had been worn in socks for several hours to give them the scent of human foot odor.
But they recently found «the carbon dioxide receptor is an extremely sensitive detector of several
skin odorants,» says Ray.
Not exact matches
«If the ointment is applied over the heart, the concentration of
odorants that penetrate through the
skin might be sufficient to have an effect on the heart; there are some hints of that,» says Hatt.