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Postnatal development of the organ of Corti in dominant-negative Gjb2 transgenic mice.
Neuroscience - 28 Oct 2008
Inoshita A, Iizuka T, Okamura H-O, Minekawa A, Kojima K, Furukawa M, Kusunoki T, Ikeda K
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary hearing loss is one of the most prevalent inherited human birth defects, affecting one in 2000. A strikingly high proportion (50%) of congenital bilateral nonsyndromic sensorineural deafness cases have been linked to mutations in the GJB2 coding for the connexin26. It has been hypothesized that gap junctions in the cochlea, especially connexin26, provide an intercellular passage by which K(+) are...
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