Connexins, hearing and deafness: Clinical aspects of mutations in the connexin 26 gene

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 159-162

  Lefebvre, Philippe P ^a,b   Vandewater, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deafness; Hearing; Inner ear

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CELL COMMUNICATION; COCHLEA DUCT; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CORTI ORGAN; ENDOLYMPH; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER;

ADULT; CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEARING; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 0343527349     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(99)00075-2     Document Type: Review

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