How the Brain Decodes Odors and Computational Neuroethology with Bob Datta
Brain Ponderings podcast with Mark Mattson
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The Effects of COVID on Smell
In humans, ACE2 is in these us antacular cells. If the mice were normally infected and they had lots of smell, then you knock out selectively ACE2, right, and then see if they don't lose their smell anymore. That is really... No, that experiment has not been done in the hamster. What has been done is to look at like the dynamics of what happens after you infect a hamster epithelium in an intact hamster with the virus. And what you see is that the suss antacular cells get infected, the neurons don't. But if you really infects the tissue, you know, substantially, then the sussantacular cells themselves
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