Brief sensory deprivation triggers cell type-specific structural and functional plasticity in olfactory bulb neurons

A new study by Elisa Galliano and colleagues in the Grubb lab at King’s College London was recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience. The authors investigated how a short-lived loss of smell (akin to a mild cold) induces functional and structural plasticity in a specific sub-population of dopaminergic interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb.

Reference: Brief sensory deprivation triggers cell type-specific structural and functional plasticity in olfactory bulb neurons, Elisa Galliano, Christiane Hahn, Lorcan P. Browne, Paula R. Villamayor, Candida Tufo, Andres Crespo and Matthew S. Grubb, Journal of Neuroscience 22 January 2021, JN-RM-1606-20; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1606-20.2020