Article
Dystroglycan expression in the mouse cochlea.
Hearing research - 1 Mar 2003
Heaney Denise LaMarche, Schulte Bradley A
Abstract excerpt
Viable dominant spotting (W(v)/W(v)) mice have a c-kit gene mutation, which impedes the migration of neural crest cells to the developing cochlea where they normally differentiate into intermediate cells (ICs). A prominent pathological feature shared by these mutants and the aging human and gerbil cochlea is thickening of the basement membrane (BM) of strial capillaries. Atrophy of strial capillaries in the aging...
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