Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Cell. 2022 Oct 27;185(22):4040-4042. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.044.
Mosquitoes rely on their sense of smell to find humans to secure a blood meal, transmitting deadly diseases with their bite. In this issue of Cell, De Obaldía and colleagues examine why mosquitoes bite some people more than others and report an association with the level of carboxylic acids in the human skin odor.
蚊子依靠嗅觉寻找人类以获取血液，通过叮咬传播致命疾病。在本期《细胞》杂志中，德奥巴尔迪娅及其同事研究了为什么蚊子叮咬某些人比叮咬其他人更多，并报告了人类皮肤气味中羧酸水平与蚊子叮咬之间的关联。
