The ultrastructural distribution of prestin in outer hair cells: A post-embedding immunogold investigation of low-frequency and high-frequency regions of the rat cochlea

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1595-1605

  Mahendrasingam, Shanthini ^a   Beurg, Maryline ^b   Fettiplace, Robert ^c   Hackney, Carole M ^d  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacitance measurements; Cochlear amplifier; Electron microscopy; Immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

PRESTIN; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; PRES PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COCHLEA; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBEDDING; HAIR CELL; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SENSORY RECEPTOR; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEARING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HEARING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77951809393     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07182.x     Document Type: Article

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