Building the world's best hearing aid; regulation of cell fate in the cochlea

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 368-373

  Puligilla, Chandrakala ^a   Kelley, Matthew W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL TYPE; COCHLEA; DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING AID; IN VITRO STUDY; INNER EAR; MAMMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; COCHLEA; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; STEM CELLS;

ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 68949146586     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2009.06.004     Document Type: Review

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