Presence of interstereocilial links in waltzer mutants suggests Cdh23 is not essential for tip Link formation

Neuroscience

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 365-368

  Rzadzinska, A K ^a   Steel, K P ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cadherin23; hair cell; hearing loss; signal transduction; stereocilia

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CADHERIN 23; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR CELL; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOCILIUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CADHERINS; CILIA; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUTATION;

EID: 58249091402     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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