How keeping active pays off in the olfactory system.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23240088.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.00326 and PMC identifier 3510477.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
A protein that is found in the main olfactory epithelium of mice ensures that odour-sensing neurons that are active to have longer lifespans than those that are inactive.
Medical subject headings
- Histones
- Olfactory Mucosa
- Olfactory Receptor Neurons
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Smell