The early postnatal development of F-actin patterns in the organ of Corti of the gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) and the horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus rouxi)

Hearing Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 47-70

  Kuhn, Birgit ^a,b   Vater, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cochlear development; cytoskeleton; Deiters cell; pillar cell

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; CYTOSKELETON; GERBIL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; AGING; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COCHLEA; FROZEN SECTIONS; GERBILLINAE; HAIR CELLS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ORGAN OF CORTI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS, LATERAL;

EID: 0030587182     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(96)00087-1     Document Type: Article

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