Ultrastructure of cisternal synapses on outer hair cells of the mouse cochlea

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 522, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 717-729

  Fuchs, Paul Albert ^a   Lehar, Mohamed ^a   Hiel, Hakim ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium store; Cholinergic inhibition; Cochlea; Hair cell; Synaptic cistern

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CISTERN; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HAIR CELL; HOMOZYGOSITY; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CALCIUM STORE; CHOLINERGIC INHIBITION; COCHLEA; HAIR CELL; SYNAPTIC CISTERN;

ANIMALS; COCHLEA; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SMALL-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84890838548     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23478     Document Type: Article

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