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Published on: August 10, 2013
Cell death in the nasal septum of normal and naris-occluded rats
Peter Brunjes1, Dixie C Shurling
1Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 102 Gilmer Hall Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA. brunjes@virginia.edu
Abstract:
Blocking airflow through an external naris of a newborn rat results in a thinning of the olfactory mucosa by postnatal day (P) 20, at least partially due to a reduction in mitotic rates. We employed the TUNEL method to examine patterns of cell death. By P20-30, significant differences in the numbers of labeled profiles were found in the middle 50% of the tissue, a region primarily containing olfactory sensory cells.

