Human pheromones: have they been demonstrated?

摘要: Efforts to collect evidence of human pheromones have focused on three partly overlapping classes possible pheromones: (1) axillary steroids, (2) vaginal aliphatic acids, and (3) stimulators the vomeronasal organ. Examples each these been patented for commercial use, in some cases aggressively marketed, but there is only incomplete supporting any particular claim that a substance acts as pheromone. The large scent glands found humans appear be well adapted production pheromones, may actually used non-pheromonal odor communication, such sharing information about immune system. Putative menstrual synchronization within social groups women putative acceleration cycle caused by men's odors suggest existence pheromone systems, both still inconclusive.