Evidence for opening of hair-cell transducer channels after tip-link loss

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 6748-6756

  Meyer, Jens ^a   Furness, David N ^b   Zenner, Hans Peter ^a   Hackney, Carole M ^b   Gummer, Anthony W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BAPTA; Channel gating; Elastase; Low calcium; Mechanoelectrical transduction; Outer hair cells; Tip link; Tip link hypothesis

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; DIHYDROSTREPTOMYCIN; ELASTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOCILIUM; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0032171189     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-17-06748.1998     Document Type: Article

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