{"id":511937,"date":"2024-02-11T04:28:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/weekly-reads-cool-olfactory-tuft-cells-t-cell-therapy-nk-cells-the-niche\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T09:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T14:46:29","slug":"weekly-reads-cool-olfactory-tuft-cells-t-cell-therapy-nk-cells-the-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/weekly-reads-cool-olfactory-tuft-cells-t-cell-therapy-nk-cells-the-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly reads: cool olfactory tuft cells, T-cell therapy, NK cells – The Niche","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s a fascinating type of olfactory cell. These so-called tuft cells have unusual characteristics, especially for nose cells. I had never heard of them before until reading a new article.<\/p>\n The inside of the nose may not seem like a very attractive place but there are cool \u201cnose stem cells\u201d in there. More broadly, there is all kinds of interesting biology going on in the olfactory epithelium. There are more cell types than we might have realized too and the system of smell is quite sensitive. Many of us found this out the hard way during COVID with some loss of sense of smell or taste. That seems to be due in part to injury to the supportive or sustentacular cells.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been reading up more about the cells in the nose since becoming a professor. This is mainly because in the Histology class that I help teach here at UC Davis School of Medicine, we teach about the microanatomy of the inner nose. At the same time, I\u2019ve been growing concerned about intranasal delivery of unproven stem cells<\/strong><\/a> at clinics. When delivered that way, some of the cells could end up in the brain.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s go into the new article on tuft cells.<\/p>\nOlfactory stem & tuft cells<\/h2>\n