Article
Reduced olfactory performance is associated with changed microbial diversity, oralization and accumulation of dead biomaterial in the nasal olfactory area
2022-11-11
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND The partial or complete loss of the sense of smell, which affects about 20% of the population, impairs the quality of life in many ways. Dysosmia and anosmia are mainly caused by aging, trauma, infections, or even neurodegenerative disease. Recently, the olfactory area – a site containing the olfactory receptor cells responsible for odor perception – was shown to harbor a complex microbiome that reflect...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 31709a54-85df-5856-8a5b-a546f7a468c2
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2251236/v1
