New paper on TMA in humans.
Seems to be a speculative paper looking at past papers to hypothesize that trimethylamine may have some sort of role in humans, possibly a communicatory role. Probably a negative role
Mitchell and Smith :
The paper is of special interest as the 2 authors have a long history in TMAU research, and could be called TMAU pioneers. Mitchell wrote a lot of early TMAU papers from the 1980's onwards, and Smith is a Professor (retired) who did research in the 90's. Neither of them has been involved in TMAU papers for maybe a decade.
Link : Trimethylamine-The Extracorporeal Envoy (jan 2016)
My interp of the paper :
There seems to be no new research done. They have looked at past papers and seem to imply there may be a communicatory role for TMA humans, probably a negative role I guess (i.e. implies ill health).
They make a point of saying how TMA is detectable to the human nose at very low levels (at least, as recorded in 1 or 2 anecdotal papers). Probably one of the volatiles with a lowest detectable odor.
Overall it is a mildly interesting hypothesis but seems speculative and I don't feel it added anything new that might help TMAU people at the moment.
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