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. 2020 Dec 17;10:22175. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79249-3

Figure 3.

Figure 3

PR induces OE injury in the dorsomedial area of the OE. (AC) Photomicrographs of representative coronal sections of the olfactory epithelium (OE) in preintervention mice (A), control mice (B), and PR mice (C). The unilateral OE was divided into four areas: dorsomedial (DM), dorsolateral (DL), ventromedial (VM), and ventrolateral (VL). Left images, low magnification; middle (HE-staining) and right images (anti-OMP staining), high magnification. Scale 300 µm at low magnification, 50 µm at high magnification. (D,E) Numbers of OSNs (D) and numbers of OMP-positive cells (E) in each area (DM, DL, VM, and VL). Significant histological changes in each area were observed between preintervention and control mice, while a significant difference between control mice and PR mice was detected only in the DM area (***P < 0.001, Mann–Whitney test).