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Coordinate reduction in cell proliferation and cell death in mouse olfactory epithelium from birth to maturity
K M Fung1, J Peringa, S Venkatachalam
1The Department of Pathology, New York University Medical Center, New York, USA.
Brain Research
|July 4, 1997
Abstract:
We investigated cell proliferation and cell death in the olfactory epithelium (OE) of mice from birth to maturity using bromodeoxyuridine and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase nick end labeling. We show that cell death events and proliferative activity diminish concomitantly with age in the OE. Thus, the age-dependent and coordinate diminution in cell proliferative activity and cell death events may serve to maintain the thickness of the OE as mice mature and age.