Characterization of a new mouse mutant, flouncer, with a balance defect and inner ear malformation

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 707-713

  Pau, Henry ^a   Hawker, Kelvin ^a   Fuchs, Helmut ^b   De Angelis, Martin Hrabé ^b   Steel, Karen P ^a,c  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balance defect; Flouncer; Inner ear malformation; Lateral semicircular canal; Mouse model; Mutant

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HEARING; INNER EAR; INNER EAR MALFORMATION; MALE; MIDDLE EAR; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SWIMMING; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EAR, INNER; HEARING LOSS; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 4544241685     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200409000-00010     Document Type: Article

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