How keeping active pays off in the olfactory system

Kevin Monahan; Stavros Lomvardas

doi:10.7554/eLife.00326

How keeping active pays off in the olfactory system

Elife. 2012 Dec 13:1:e00326. doi: 10.7554/eLife.00326.

Authors

Kevin Monahan¹, Stavros Lomvardas

Affiliation

¹ is in the Department of Anatomy , University of California , San Francisco , USA.

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.

Keywords: Mouse; epigenetics; histone; olfactory.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Animals
Histones / genetics*
Humans
Olfactory Mucosa / metabolism*
Olfactory Receptor Neurons / metabolism*
Protein Processing, Post-Translational*
Smell / genetics*

Substances

Histones