Connexins in hearing loss: A comprehensive overview

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 101-116

  Sabag, Adi D ^a   Dagan, Orit ^a   Avraham, Karen B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

cochlea; connexin 26; connexin 30; deafness; genetics; hearing loss; mutations

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AUDITORY SYSTEM; CELL COMMUNICATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAR; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; EAR, INNER; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 27644593332     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2005.16.2-3.101     Document Type: Article

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