Sensory deprivation reduces new cell size in the olfactory system.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-6 April 2005-YALE UNIVERSITY: Sensory deprivation reduces new cell size in the olfactory system(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06042005 New Haven, Conn. - Sensory deprivation causes changes in new cell size and excitability in the olfactory system, which governs the ability to smell, according to a study in Neuron by a Yale School of Medicine researcher.

"This gives new insight into how stem cells in the olfactory system may be used to restore function in a brain that has been compromised by degenerative disease or trauma," said Gordon Shepherd, M.D., co-author of the paper and professor of neuroscience at Yale. Shepherd, on sabbatical with Pierre-Marie Lledo of the Pasteur Institute, investigated how the olfactory system responds...