The tectorial membrane: One slice of a complex cochlear sandwich

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 458-464

  Richardson, Guy P ^a   Lukashkin, Andrei N ^a   Russell, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cochlea; deafness genes; hearing loss; TECTA, tectorial membrane

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COCHLEA DUCT; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; TECTA GENE; ANIMAL; COCHLEA; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; TECTA PROTEIN, MOUSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; COCHLEA; DEAFNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECTORIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 58149357414     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e32830e20c4     Document Type: Review

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