Article
Mutation of Foxo3 causes adult onset auditory neuropathy and alters cochlear synapse architecture in mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 20 Nov 2013
Gilels Felicia, Paquette Stephen T, Zhang Jingyuan, Rahman Irfan, White Patricia M
Abstract excerpt
Auditory neuropathy is a form of hearing loss in which cochlear inner hair cells fail to correctly encode or transmit acoustic information to the brain. Few genes have been implicated in the adult-onset form of this disease. Here we show that mice lacking the transcription factor Foxo3 have adult onset hearing loss with the hallmark characteristics of auditory neuropathy, namely, elevated auditory thresholds...
Topics
- Acoustic Stimulation
- Age Factors
- Alcohol Oxidoreductases
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Calcium-Binding Proteins
- Co-Repressor Proteins
- Cochlea
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Disease Models, Animal
