Genes related to hearing disorders.

Abstract excerpt

The inner ear is a highly specialized organ and the mechanisms of its function are complex and have not yet fully been elucidated. For example, there are questions such as how the stereocilia characteristics of hair cells are regularly arranged, how the reactions of stereocilia and ion channels of hair cells to sound are controlled, and how the ion environment is maintained in the internal ear. The mechanisms of...

Topics

• Animals
• Anion Transport Proteins
• Disease Models, Animal
• Extracellular Matrix
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Hearing Disorders
• Humans