Abstract
The olfactory mucosa, lining a portion of the nasal cavity, houses the primary olfactory sensory neurons responsible for odor transduction, along with supporting cell populations. Tremendous advances have come from studying the peripheral olfactory system in animal models, especially the mouse. However, acquired human olfactory disorders lack effective therapies, and many of these conditions involve pathology in the olfactory mucosa. Thus, the ability to obtain human olfactory biopsy samples from subjects with olfactory dysfunction, or controls, may be of value. Here, we describe established techniques for collecting olfactory tissue from human subjects and preparing samples for downstream assays such as immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, single-cell RNA-sequencing, or chromatin studies.
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This work was support by NIH grants DC016859 and DC018371 (BJG).
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Choi, R., Ko, T., Finlay, J.B., Hachem, R.A., Jang, D., Goldstein, B.J. (2023). Preparation of Human Olfactory Epithelial Biopsies for Downstream Analysis. In: Goldstein, B.J., Matsunami, H. (eds) The Olfactory System. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2710. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3425-7_10
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