Olfactory Epithelium Progenitors: Insights from Transgenic Mice and in Vitro Biology

Overview

Journal J Mol Histol

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2007 Sep 14

PMID 17851769

Citations 47

Authors

Barbara Murdoch

A Jane Roskams

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Abstract

The rodent olfactory epithelium (OE) is capable of prolonged neurogenesis, beginning at E10 in the embryo and continuing throughout adulthood. Significant progress has been made over the last 10 years in revealing the signals that drive induction, differentiation and survival of its Olfactory Receptor Neurons (ORNs). Our understanding of the identity of specific progenitors or precursors that respond to these signals is, however, less well developed, and the search is still on for the elusive, definitive multipotent neuro-glial OE "Stem cell". Here, we review several lines of evidence that support the existence of a heterogeneous population of neural and glial progenitors in the olfactory mucosa, and highlight the differences in the identity and activity of progenitors found in the embryonic and adult OE. In particular, we show how recent advances in mouse transgenesis, and in the development of in vitro assays of progenitor activity, have helped to demonstrate the existence of multiple classes of olfactory mucosa-based progenitors.

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