Otoconial agenesis in tilted mutant mice

Hearing Research

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 60-70

  Ornitz, David M ^a   Bohne, Barbara A ^a   Thalmann, Isolde ^a   Harding, Gary W ^a   Thalmann, Ruediger ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity receptor; Mouse mutant; Otoconia; Vestibular histopathology

Indexed keywords

AGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; HAIR CELL; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EPITHELIUM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEAD-DOWN TILT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; MUTATION; ORGAN OF CORTI; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0032146930     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(98)00080-X     Document Type: Article

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