Analysis of connexin subunits required for the survival of vestibular hair cells

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 504, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 499-507

  Qu, Yan ^a,b   Tang, Wenxue ^a   Dahlke, Ian ^a   Ding, Dalian ^c   Salvi, Richard ^c   Söhl, Goran ^d   Willecke, Klaus ^d   Chen, Ping ^a   Lin, Xi ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital hearing loss; Connexin; Gap junction; Hair cell degeneration; Saccule; Vestibular adaptation; Vestibular sensory organs

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HAIR CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCULUS; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; COCHLEA; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HAIR CELLS, VESTIBULAR; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

EID: 35348908939     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21459     Document Type: Article

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