Friday, January 28, 2011

The Nose Knows? (mouse snot)

Would it have occurred to you to study this?!!  Maybe, some people have too much time on their hands: 
A study recently published in The Journal of Neuroscience showed that certain chemicals in the nasal mucus of mice contains enzymes that can cleave aldehydes.  One example is that an aromatic substance that smelled like almonds was changed to a weaker smell of tea.
They didn't say if they plan to study whether this is related to why humans have less appetite when suffering from a cold.  Or, maybe it could be used as a dieting aid??

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