Ultrastructural localization of cochlin in the rat cochlear duct

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-253

  Hosokawa, Seiji ^a   Mizuta, Kunihiro ^a   Nakanishi, Hiroshi ^a   Hashimoto, Yasuyuki ^a   Arai, Maki ^a   Mineta, Hiroyuki ^a   Shindo, Susumu ^b   Ikezono, Tetsuo ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

COCH gene; DFNA9; Hereditary hearing impairment; Immunogold method; Inner ear

Indexed keywords

COCHLIN PROTEIN, RAT; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA DUCT; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; SPIRAL LIGAMENT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEAR DUCT; COLLAGEN TYPE II; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPIRAL LIGAMENT OF COCHLEA;

EID: 77952953880     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000256664     Document Type: Article

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