Mutation in the Kv3.3 Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel Causing Spinocerebellar Ataxia 13 Disrupts Sound-Localization Mechanisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Middlebrooks, John C ^a   Nick, Harry S ^b   Subramony, S H ^b   Advincula, Joel ^c   Rosales, Raymond L ^d   Lee, Lillian V ^e   Ashizawa, Tetsuo ^b   Waters, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS   (Philippines)

^e Philippine Children's Medical Center   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHAW POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV3.3;

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROVENTRAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BINAURAL HEARING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCE; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; MALE; NOISE; PATHOGENESIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND DETECTION; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA 13; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CUES; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; SHAW POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885078356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076749     Document Type: Article

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