Targeted disruption of Otog results in deafness and severe imbalance

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-143

  Simmler, Marie Christine ^a   Cohen Salmon, Martine ^b   El Amraoui, Aziz ^b   Guillaud, Laurent ^a   Benichou, Jean Claude ^b   Petit, Christine ^b   Panthier, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHLEA DUCT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE TARGETING; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INNER EAR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COCHLEA; DEAFNESS; EAR, INNER; EXONS; GENE LIBRARY; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; REFLEX; STEM CELLS; TECTORIAL MEMBRANE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033951215     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72793     Document Type: Article

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