The tip link's role in asymmetric stereocilia motion of chick cochlear hair cells

Hearing Research

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 14-21

  Eisen, Marc D ^a   Duncan, R Keith ^b   Saunders, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Basilar papilla; Chick; Hair cell; Stereocilia motion; Tip link

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHICKEN; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR CELL; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STEREOCILIUM;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CILIA; CULTURE MEDIA; HAIR CELLS; MOVEMENT;

EID: 0032898084     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(98)00167-1     Document Type: Article

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