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Age-related changes in cochlear gene expression in normal and shaker 2 mice.
Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO - 1 Sept 2006
Gong Tzy-Wen L, Karolyi I Jill, Macdonald James, Beyer Lisa, Raphael Yehoash, Kohrman David C, Camper Sally A, Lomax Margaret I
Abstract excerpt
The vertebrate cochlea is a complex organ optimized for sound transduction. Auditory hair cells, with their precisely arranged stereocilia bundles, transduce sound waves to electrical signals that are transmitted to the brain. Mutations in the unconventional myosin XV cause deafness in both human DFNB3 families and in shaker 2 (sh2) mice as a result of defects in stereocilia. In these mutant mice, hair cells have...
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