Mechanisms of hair cell tuning

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1999, Pages 809-834

  Fettiplace, R ^a   Fuchs, P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Calcium; Calcium activated potassium channel; Electrical tuning; Mechanotransduction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

ACOUSTICS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; COCHLEA; ELECTRORECEPTOR; HAIR CELL; INNER EAR; MECHANORECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; COCHLEA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAIR CELLS; ION CHANNEL GATING; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033066512     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.61.1.809     Document Type: Review

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