Figure 3. Comparison of olfactory thresholds between treatment groups.

A) Boxplots demonstrate that rinsing with the solution replicating ions concentrations found in the chronically inflamed murine model caused a significant elevation in human olfactory threshold compared to rinsing with the solution replicating ion concentrations found in the control murine model (p = 0.003 versus p = 0.75, respectively). There was no significant difference between the baseline olfactory threshold measurements between the treatment groups (p = 0.23). B) The difference in olfactory threshold after rinsing with the solution replicating ion concentrations in the chronically inflamed mouse model was much greater than rinsing with the solution replicating ion concentrations in the control model (p = 0.003).