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Conditional deletion of Atoh1 using Pax2-Cre results in viable mice without differentiated cochlear hair cells that have lost most of the organ of Corti.
Hearing research - 1 May 2011
Pan Ning, Jahan Israt, Kersigo Jennifer, Kopecky Benjamin, Santi Peter, Johnson Shane, Schmitz Heather, Fritzsch Bernd
Abstract excerpt
Atonal homolog1 (Atoh1, formerly Math1) is a crucial bHLH transcription factor for inner ear hair cell differentiation. Its absence in embryos results in complete absence of mature hair cells at birth and its misexpression can generate extra hair cells. Thus Atoh1 may be both necessary and suffic...
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