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Maintenance of neuronal size gradient in MNTB requires sound-evoked activity.
Journal of neurophysiology - 1 Feb 2017
Weatherstone Jessica H, Kopp-Scheinpflug Conny, Pilati Nadia, Wang Yuan, Forsythe Ian D, Rubel Edwin W, Tempel Bruce L
Abstract excerpt
The medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) is an important source of inhibition during the computation of sound location. It transmits fast and precisely timed action potentials at high frequencies; this requires an efficient calcium clearance mechanism, in which plasma membrane calcium ATPase 2 (PMCA2) is a key component. Deafwaddler (dfw2J ) mutant mice have a null mutation in PMCA2 causing deafness in...
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