Linking genes underlying deafness to hair-bundle development and function

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 703-710

  Petit, Christine ^a   Richardson, Guy P ^b  

^a Institut Pasteur   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; GENE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR BUNDLE; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; KINOCILIUM; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CILIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MYOSINS;

EID: 66749156456     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2330     Document Type: Review

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