Elongation of hair cell stereocilia is defective in the mouse mutant whirler

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 450, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 94-102

  Holme, Ralph H ^a   Kiernan, Brent W ^a   Brown, Steve D M ^a   Steel, Karen P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Genetic defects; Inner ear; Organ of Corti; Scanning electron microscopy; Wi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE LOCUS; HAIR CELL; HEARING DISORDER; HOMOZYGOSITY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOUND; STEREOCILIUM; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL SIZE; CILIA; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENOTYPE; HAIR CELLS, INNER; HEARING; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0037068004     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10301     Document Type: Article

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