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Looking again at those Bitter Olfactory Receptors lurking in the lung PREMIUM CONTENT subscriber access

Apr 03, 2022

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Past newsletters described the ectopic olfactory receptors found throughout the body. In particular, the Bitter ‘taste’ receptor [T2] abides in sinuses and lung linings.

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Past newsletters talked about using smell tests for dementia diagnosis, but also for covid infections. And there was the one on nasal exosomes sending stuff into the brain via the olfactory organ. Hmmm … nose - brain - immune linked. But what if those olfactory chemosensing receptors were also found outside the CNS and nasal cribriform plate - actually…

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Now recent lab work is building on that knowledge to exploit the receptor for therapeutic development.

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