Defects in middle ear cavitation cause conductive hearing loss in the Tcof1 mutant mouse

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1551-1560

  Richter, Carol A ^a   Amin, Susan ^a   Linden, Jennifer ^b   Dixon, Jill ^c   Dixon, Michael J ^c,d   Tucker, Abigail S ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN TCOF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; BLISTER; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; MESENCHYME; MIDDLE EAR; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DEAFNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 77952298971     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq028     Document Type: Article

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