Carnosine in the primary olfactory pathway
Laboratory studyOther animals
- Design
- Laboratory study
- What was measured
- Carnosine concentration in mouse olfactory bulbs and nasal olfactory epithelium, before and after peripheral deafferentation.
What the authors reported
Carnosine was present in mouse olfactory bulb and olfactory epithelium at concentrations exceeding any previously reported for any brain region in any species. After peripheral deafferentation, olfactory bulb carnosine fell to less than 10 percent of normal while other amino compounds were unaffected, indicating that carnosine is highly localised to the primary olfactory pathway.
Limits of this study
Mouse neurochemistry; short report. A draft of this paper may already exist under the same slug in another output folder. Abstract only.
Source
PubMed 4825893 · doi:10.1126/science.184.4139.909
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