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SUBMITTER: Sobrino V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5836101 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sobrino Verónica V González-Rodríguez Patricia P Annese Valentina V López-Barneo José J Pardal Ricardo R
EMBO reports 20180115 3
Unlike other neural peripheral organs, the adult carotid body (CB) has a remarkable structural plasticity, as it grows during acclimatization to hypoxia. The CB contains neural stem cells that can differentiate into oxygen-sensitive glomus cells. However, an extended view is that, unlike other catecholaminergic cells of the same lineage (sympathetic neurons or chromaffin cells), glomus cells can divide and thus contribute to CB hypertrophy. Here, we show that O<sub>2</sub>-sensitive mature glomu ...[more]