Etiological relationships of parotid saliva cyclic nucleotides in patients with taste and smell dysfunctionRobert I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, 5125 MacArthur Blvd, NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Arch Oral Biol 57:670-7. 2012
..To learn more about these relationships we studied parotid saliva cAMP and cGMP with respect to aetiology of sensory loss in these patients...
- Aetiological relationships of nasal mucus cyclic nucleotides in patients with taste and smell dysfunction
Robert I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC 20016, USA
J Clin Pathol 65:447-51. 2012
..To learn more about these differences this study related levels of nasal mucus cAMP and cGMP in patients with smell and taste dysfunction to the aetiology of their sensory loss and compared these results with those in normal individuals...
Functional MRI of congenital hyposmia: brain activation to odors and imagination of odors and tastesRobert I Henkin
Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC 20016, USA
J Comput Assist Tomogr 26:39-61. 2002
..Our goal was to use functional MRI (fMRI) to define brain activation in response to odors and imagination ("memory") of odors and tastes in patients who never recognized odors (congenital hyposmia)...
- Distinguishing patients with glossopyrosis from those with oropyrosis based upon clinical differences and differences in saliva and erythrocyte magnesium
Robert I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC 20016, United States
Arch Oral Biol 57:205-10. 2012
..Biochemical differences between these two groups could assist in distinguishing them...
- Relative resistance to oral theophylline treatment in patients with hyposmia manifested by decreased secretion of nasal mucus cyclic nucleotides
Robert I Henkin
Taste and Smell Clinic, Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Am J Med Sci 341:17-22. 2011
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- Differences between and within human parotid saliva and nasal mucus cAMP and cGMP in normal subjects and in patients with taste and smell dysfunction
Robert I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC 20016, USA
J Oral Pathol Med 40:504-9. 2011
..However, comparison of levels of these latter moieties in saliva and nasal mucus has not been performed and meaning of differences found has not been discussed...
Carbonic anhydrase I, II, and VI, blood plasma, erythrocyte and saliva zinc and copper increase after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulationRobert I Henkin
Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, District of Columbia 20016, USA
Am J Med Sci 339:249-57. 2010
..To obtain more information about these changes after rTMS, we measured changes in several CA enzymes, proteins, and trace metals in their blood plasma, erythrocytes, and saliva...
- Improvement in smell and taste dysfunction after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
Robert I Henkin
The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Otolaryngol 32:38-46. 2011
..Although treatment of these symptoms has been elusive, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been suggested as an effective corrective therapy...
- Decreased parotid salivary cyclic nucleotides related to smell loss severity in patients with taste and smell dysfunction
Robert Irwin Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Metabolism 58:1717-23. 2009
..These results reflect a biochemical method to identify and classify patients with smell loss in some respects similar to initial typing of serum lipid levels to assist in risk classification of patients with cardiovascular disease...
- An open-label controlled trial of theophylline for treatment of patients with hyposmia
Robert I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Med Sci 337:396-406. 2009
..To test the hypothesis that theophylline is effective in correcting smell loss in patients with hyposmia...
- cAMP and cGMP in nasal mucus related to severity of smell loss in patients with smell dysfunction
R I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutritional and SensoryDisorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Clin Invest Med 31:E78-84. 2008
..To evaluate nasal mucus levels of cAMP and cGMP in patients with taste and smell dysfunction with respect to severity of their smell loss...
- cAMP and cGMP in nasal mucus: relationships to taste and smell dysfunction, gender and age
R I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutritional and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Clin Invest Med 31:E71-7. 2008
..To evaluate the presence and concentration of cAMP and cGMP in human nasal mucus in normal volunteers, to relate these findings to age and gender, and to compare normal levels with those in patients with taste and smell dysfunction...
- cAMP and cGMP in human parotid saliva: relationships to taste and smell dysfunction, gender, and age
Robert I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Am J Med Sci 334:431-40. 2007
..There was a complex pattern of change for both cAMP and cGMP with age with concentrations increasing to about age 50, then decreasing, then increasing again at age >70 years...
- Comparative monitoring of oral theophylline treatment in blood serum, saliva, and nasal mucus
Robert I Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, District of Columbia 20016, USA
Ther Drug Monit 34:217-21. 2012
..No prior report of theophylline in nasal mucus has been made and no comparison of levels in nasal mucus, blood serum, or saliva has been previously reported...
