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Olfactory mucosa (OM) can metabolise odorant volatile organic compounds through various enzymatic mechanisms to produce odorous or non-odorous metabolites. Preliminary ex vivo studies using headspace-gas chromatography (HS-GC) revealed the formation of metabolites when odorant molecules were injected in the headspace above a fresh explant of rat olfactory mucosa. However, this method did not allow...