Smelling a Single Component of Male Sweat Alters Levels of Cortisol in Women

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Figure 2.
Figure 2.

Smelling androstadienone maintained higher levels of salivary cortisol. Androstadienone is shown in the white bars, and control in the black bars. Smelling AND maintained higher levels of cortisol ( A ) as a change from baseline in z-score, and in absolute levels of cortisol ( B ).

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 27 no. 6 1261-1265
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