Motors, channels and the sounds of silence

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 608-609

  Avraham, Karen B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MYOSIN;

APICAL MEMBRANE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 11Q; COCHLEA; ENDOLYMPH; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; INNER EAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOCILIUM; USHER SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; COCHLEA; CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; DYNEIN ATPASE; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; MYOSINS;

EID: 0030953144     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0697-608     Document Type: Short Survey

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