Sentence examples for smell function from inspiring English sources

The purpose of this study was to study relationships among changes in smell function, theophylline levels and nasal mucus cAMP and cGMP among patients whose smell function improved (responders) and those who did not improve (nonresponders) on oral theophylline treatment.

Fasting for 24 h improved smell function and this was related to increased palatability ratings and initial BW.

Changes in smell function can modify feeding behaviour but there is little evidence of how acute negative energy balance may impact olfaction and palatability.

Oral treatment with the phosphodiesterase inhibitor theophylline in an open-label fixed-design clinical trial in 312 patients with hyposmia improved smell function in > 50%.

This study, however, did not include any testing of smell function.

(4) Cognitive disturbances in elderly individuals are characterised by impaired smell function but also potentially accounting for unwillingness to participate in the survey.

28 Although severe chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps usually has a negative impact on smell function, 12 our data did not identify chronic rhinosinusitis as being a risk factor for the loss of smell.

Although Axel and Buck's work has begun to answer fundamental questions about how the sense of smell functions, it has also raised new questions that have attracted researchers from other fields to study olfaction.