Table of Contents
Lists of Contributors vii
Preface xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
1 Olfactory system in mammals: structural and functional anatomy 1 Anne-Marie Le Bon, Frédérique Datiche, Jean Gascuel & Xavier Grosmaitre
2 Odorant metabolizing enzymes in the peripheral olfactory process 34 Jean-Marie Heydel, Hassan-Ismail Hanser, Philippe Faure & Fabrice Neiers
3 The vertebrate gustatory system 57 Maik Behrens & Wolfgang Meyerhof
4 Bioadhesion and oral fluids—perireceptor modulators of taste perception? 79 Christian Hannig, Matthias Hannig & Martine Morzel
5 Basic physiology of the intranasal trigeminal system 109 Florence Gingras-Lessard & Johannes Frasnelli
6 Characterization of aroma compounds: structure, physico-chemical and sensory properties 126 Henryk Jeleń & Anna Gracka
7 Characterization of taste compounds: chemical structures and sensory properties 154 Anni Laffitte, Fabrice Neiers & Loïc Briand
8 Sensory characterization of compounds with a trigeminal effect for taste modulation purposes 192 Isabelle Cayeux & Christian Starkenmann
9 Interactions between aroma compounds and food matrix 208 Laurianne Paravisini & Elisabeth Guichard
10 Aroma release during in-mouth process 235 Andrea Romano
11 Release of tastants during in-mouth processing 266 Christian Salles
12 Interactions between saliva and flavour compounds 284 Francis Canon & Eric Neyraud
13 Orthonasal and retronasal perception 310 Thomas Hummel & Han-Seok Seo
14 Perception of mixtures of odorants and tastants: sensory and analytical points of view 319 Thierry Thomas-Danguin, Carmen Barba, Christian Salles & Elisabeth Guichard
15 Odour mixture coding from the neuronal point of view 341 Patricia Duchamp-Viret
16 Multisensory flavour perception 373 Charles Spence
Index 395