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  2. Pheromone - Wikipedia

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    Male-produced sex attractants have been called aggregation pheromones, because they usually result in the arrival of both sexes at a calling site and increase the density of conspecifics surrounding the pheromone source. Most sex pheromones are produced by the females; only a small percentage of sex attractants are produced by males. [7]

  3. Human sex pheromones - Wikipedia

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    Sex pheromones are a special type of olfactory signal, produced to attract the opposite sex, to encourage mating or to perform some other function closely related to sexual reproduction. While humans are highly dependent upon visual cues, smells can also play a role in sociosexual behaviors .

  4. Body odour and sexual attraction - Wikipedia

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    Signal pheromones act as attractants and repellents; they are classified short-term behavioral pheromones. Primer pheromones produce long term changes in human behavior and hormone production. The vomeronasal organ is used to detect the pheromones of others. Pheromones emitted from sweat glands play a role in sexual attraction, sexual repulsion ...

  5. Body odor - Wikipedia

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    In humans, body odor serves as a means of chemosensory signal communication between members of the species. These signals are called pheromones and they can be transmitted through a variety of mediums. The most common way that human pheromones are transmitted is through bodily fluids.

  6. Sex pheromone - Wikipedia

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    Sex pheromones are pheromones released by an organism to attract an individual of the same species, encourage them to mate with them, or perform some other function closely related with sexual reproduction. Sex pheromones specifically focus on indicating females for breeding, attracting the opposite sex, and conveying information on species ...

  7. Biochemistry of body odor - Wikipedia

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    There are three types of sweat glands: eccrine, apocrine, and apoeccrine. [1] Apocrine glands are primarily responsible for body malodor and, along with apoeccrine glands, are mostly expressed in the axillary (underarm) regions, whereas eccrine glands are distributed throughout virtually all of the rest of the skin in the body, although they are also particularly expressed in the axillary ...

  8. Sebaceous gland - Wikipedia

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    In humans, sebaceous glands occur in the greatest number on the face and scalp, but also on all parts of the skin except the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. In the eyelids , meibomian glands , also called tarsal glands, are a type of sebaceous gland that secrete a special type of sebum into tears .

  9. Scent gland - Wikipedia

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    Scent gland are exocrine glands found in most mammals.They produce semi-viscous secretions which contain pheromones and other semiochemical compounds. These odor-messengers indicate information such as status, territorial marking, mood, and sexual behaviour.