Deaf and dizzy mice with mutated myosin motors

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-29

  Gillespie, Peter G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CHILD; DEAFNESS; DIZZINESS; HAIR CELLS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUTATION; MYOSINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030025878     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0196-27     Document Type: Short Survey

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