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Notch signalling pathway mediates hair cell development in mammalian cochlea.
Nature genetics - 1 Mar 1999
Lanford P J, Lan Y, Jiang R, Lindsell C, Weinmaster G, Gridley T, Kelley M W
Abstract excerpt
The mammalian cochlea contains an invariant mosaic of sensory hair cells and non-sensory supporting cells reminiscent of invertebrate structures such as the compound eye in Drosophila melanogaster. The sensory epithelium in the mammalian cochlea (the organ of Corti) contains four rows of mechanosensory hair cells: a single row of inner hair cells and three rows of outer hair cells. Each hair cell is separated...
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