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Role of Phox2b and Mash1 in the generation of the vestibular efferent nucleus.
Developmental biology - 1 Aug 2003
Tiveron M-C, Pattyn A, Hirsch M-R, Brunet J-F
Abstract excerpt
The inner ear (vestibular and cochlear) efferent neurons are a group of atypical motor-like hindbrain neurons which innervate inner ear hair cells and their sensory afferents. They are born in the fourth rhombomere, in close association with facial branchial motor neurons, from which they subsequently part through a specific migration route. Here, we demonstrate that the inner ear efferents depend on Phox2b for...
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