Bourgeonal is an agonist of human testicular olfactory receptor hOR17-4.1 It increases cytosolic calcium levels in human spermatozoa when used at a concentration of 5 μM. Bourgeonal acts as a chemoattractant and increases swimming speed in sperm chemotaxis assays in a concentration-dependent manner.
1.Spehr, M., Gisselmann, G., Poplawski, A., et al.Identification of a testicular odorant receptor mediating human sperm chemotaxisScience299(5615)2054-2058(2003)
















