Altered cochlear fibrocytes in a mouse model of DFN3 nonsyndromic deafness

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5432, 1999, Pages 1408-1411

  Minowa, O ^a,c   Ikeda, K ^b   Sugitani, Y ^a,c   Oshima, T ^b   Nakai, S ^a,c   Katori, Y ^b   Suzuki, M ^b   Furukawa, M ^b   Kawase, T ^b   Zheng, Y ^b   Ogura, M ^b   Asada, Y ^b   Watanabe, K ^b   Yamanaka, H ^a,c   Gotoh, S ^a,b   Nishi Takeshima, M ^d   Sugimoto, T ^e   Kikuchi, T ^b   Takasaka, T ^b   Noda, T ^a,b,c  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM ION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOMEOSTASIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR DUCT; DEAFNESS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EAR, INNER; EAR, MIDDLE; ENDOLYMPH; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ION TRANSPORT; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POTASSIUM; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033610073     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5432.1408     Document Type: Article

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30. Supported by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (O.M., T.N.); grant-in-aid 07457394 (K.I.) from the Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Culture of Japan; and a grant from the Ministry of Health and Welfare. We thank M. Ogawa, K. Kaga, and T. Murobushi for valuable discussions; K. Jishage, H. Nishino, R. Sato, and K. Yamaguchi for technical support; and T. Morizono, C. M. Hackney, and D. N. Fumess for support