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    Key considerations for the experimental training and evaluation of cancer odour detection dogs: lessons learnt from a double-blind, controlled trial of prostate cancer detection

    Cancer detection using sniffer dogs is a potential technology for clinical use and research. Our study sought to determine whether dogs could be trained to discriminate the odour of urine from men with prostat...

    Kevin R Elliker, Barbara A Sommerville, Donald M Broom, David E Neal… in BMC Urology (2014)

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    Olfactory Communication Between Man and Other Animals

    When an animal communicates with another, it transmits a signal in such a way that the sender usually benefits from the response of the receiver. In most situations involving humans and companion animals, the ...

    Barbara A. Sommerville, Donald M. Broom in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 9 (2001)

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    Early changes in the adaptation to a low calcium diet in the chick

    Twelve hours after the diet of 3-week-old chicks was changed from a 1% to a 0.1% concentration of calcium (Ca), the growth rate and circulating levels of growth hormone had fallen while renal 25-hydroxecholeca...

    Barbara A. Sommerville, S. Harvey, A. Chadwick in Calcified Tissue International (1983)