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ArticleExperimental neurology2008

Maintaining epitheliopoietic potency when culturing olfactory progenitors.

Woochan Jang, James Lambropoulos, Jin Kyung Woo, Carolyn E Peluso, James E Schwob

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Article in Experimental neurology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 46% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Olfactory models as a platform for neuroscience research.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2026
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  2. Strategies to Develop Regenerative Medicine Approaches for Olfactory Disorders.Clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology · 2025
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  3. Organoid models for chemosensing cell studies.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2025
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  7. CanonicalThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  8. Isolation, culture optimization and functional characterization of stem cell neurospheres from mouse neonatal olfactory bulb and epithelium.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2017
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  14. Wnt-responsive Lgr5⁺ globose basal cells function as multipotent olfactory epithelium progenitor cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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  18. Primary culture of embryonic rat olfactory receptor neurons.In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Woochan JangDepartment of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
James Lambropoulos
Jin Kyung Woo
Carolyn E Peluso
James E Schwob
Tufts University · US

Funding

TUSM/T-NEMC CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH - Imaging CoreP30NS047243 · NINDS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI JACKSON, F ROB · 2003 to 2017
$10.0M
REGULATION OF NEUROGENESIS IN OLFACTORY EPITHELIUMR01DC002167 · NIDCD · UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY · PI SCHWOB, JAMES E. · 1994 to 2016
$5.2M
Strategies for Restoring Olfactory NeurogenesisR21DC006517 · NIDCD · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI SCHWOB, JAMES E · 2003 to 2004
$317k
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC002167NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC006517NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS047243
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The olfactory epithelium is remarkable for the persistence of multipotent, neurocompetent progenitor and stem cells throughout life that can replace all of the various cell types of the epithelium following injury. The therapeutic exploitation of the neurocompetent stem cells of the adult olfactory epithelium would be facilitated by the development of a culture system that maintains the in vivo potency of the progenitors while they are expanded and/or manipulated. We have used an air-liquid interface culture protocol, in which a feeder cell layer of 3T3 cells is established on the underside of a culture insert and Facs-isolated or unsorted progenitor cells from the methyl bromide-lesioned adult rodent epithelium are seeded on upper side. Under these conditions, epithelial cells other than HBCs are capable of organizing themselves into complex three-dimensional, epithelium-lined spheres, which can be passaged. The spheres contain cells with the molecular phenotype of globose basal cells, horizontal basal cells, sustentacular cells and neurons. Spheres derived from mice that express the green fluorescent protein constitutively can be dissociated after 6 days in vitro and directly transplanted into the epithelium of wild-type, methyl bromide-lesioned mice via nasal infusion. The resulting clones contain the various cell types observed in aggregate when globose basal cells are transplanted acutely. In contrast, the same cells cultured as two-dimensional, submerged cultures undergo fibroblastic transition after transplantation and do not integrate into the epithelium. In conclusion, the culture system described here maintains the potency of progenitors, which can then participate in epitheliopoiesis in vivo.

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Cell Culture TechniquesAnimalsCell DifferentiationCells, CulturedFlow CytometryImmunohistochemistryMiceMice, Inbred C57BLOlfactory MucosaRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyStem Cells

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PMID18703052
PMCPMC2888843
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