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Inner Ear Connexin Channels: Roles in Development and Maintenance of Cochlear Function.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Jul 2019
Mammano Fabio
Abstract excerpt
Connexin 26 and connexin 30 are the prevailing isoforms in the epithelial and connective tissue gap junction systems of the developing and mature cochlea. The most frequently encountered variants of the genes that encode these connexins, which are transcriptionally coregulated, determine complete loss of protein function and are the predominant cause of prelingual hereditary deafness. Reducing connexin 26...
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