Active cochlear amplification is dependent on supporting cell gap junctions

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Yan ^a   Liang, Chun ^a,b   Chen, Jin ^a,c   Zong, Liang ^a   Chen, Guang Di ^d   Zhao, Hong Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Birth Defects Prevention Research and Transformation Team   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PRES PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AMPLIFICATION; BIOACOUSTICS; HAIR; HEARING; MAMMAL; POLARIZATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CELL EXPANSION; COCHLEA; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; GAP JUNCTION; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LATERAL VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; DEFICIENCY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LABYRINTH SUPPORTING CELLS; METABOLISM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPIRAL GANGLION; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR MICROPHONIC POTENTIALS; CONNEXINS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HEARING LOSS; LABYRINTH SUPPORTING CELLS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; SPIRAL GANGLION;

EID: 84877757872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2806     Document Type: Article

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