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However, when asked to rate each odour on five characteristics (odour intensity, pleasantness, smells like sex, smells like aggression and smells like fear), odours collected during the frightening movie were rated as more intense, less pleasant and more reminiscent of aggression, although, perhaps surprisingly, they did not differ from control odours in the extent to which they reminded smellers of fear (or of sex)
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Eventually, this may result in cell death from the destructive cellular programs
The practical result is faster, cleaner tissue repair
Leehey, M