Sensing sound: Molecules that orchestrate mechanotransduction by hair cells

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 220-229

  Kazmierczak, Piotr ^a   Müller, Ulrich ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CADHERIN 23;

ADAPTATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CHANNEL GATING; CILIARY MOTILITY; CYTOPLASM; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSDUCTION CHANNEL;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84859269061     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2011.10.007     Document Type: Review

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