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. 2008 Sep 9;105(36):13195-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807167105. Epub 2008 Sep 4.

DEET repels ORNery mosquitoes

John A Pickett  1 , Michael A Birkett, James G Logan
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DEET repels ORNery mosquitoes

John A Pickett et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Depiction of mosquito olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) responses. (A) ORN response to the attractant 1-octen-3-ol, and to 1-octen-3-ol plus DEET, introduced into the airflow from a single odor cartridge, giving the impression that DEET causes ORN inhibition, as stated by Ditzen et al. (4). (B and C) However, according to Syed and Leal (5), a separate DEET ORN is responsible for repellency (B), and, when 1-octen-3-ol and DEET are introduced into the airflow from two different odor cartridges, no ORN inhibition occurs (C).
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