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Taste Perception and the Menstrual Cycle

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SENSITIVITY to the taste of quinine and 6-n-propyl-thiouracil (PROP) has been determined throughout one or more menstrual cycles in a group of nineteen subjects. Taste tests were carried out at the same time each day, 3 days per week, for periods ranging from 4 to 9 weeks. The subjects were apparently healthy and normal females and all but two were student nurses. Their ages ranged from 19 to 27 (average 20.7). Subjects were requested not to take drugs during the experiment. Four additional subjects were excluded from the analysis because of illness or medication.

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GLANVILLE, E., KAPLAN, A. Taste Perception and the Menstrual Cycle. Nature 205, 930–931 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205930a0

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