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Retardation of cochlear maturation and impaired hair cell function caused by deletion of all known thyroid hormone receptors.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 Dec 2001
Rusch A, Ng L, Goodyear R, Oliver D, Lisoukov I, Vennstrom B, Richardson G, Kelley M W, Forrest D
Abstract excerpt
The deafness caused by early onset hypothyroidism indicates that thyroid hormone is essential for the development of hearing. We investigated the underlying roles of the TRalpha1 and TRbeta thyroid hormone receptors in the auditory system using receptor-deficient mice. TRalpha1 and TRbeta, which...
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