Article
Ultrastructural, physiological, and molecular defects in the inner ear of a gene-knockout mouse model for autosomal Alport syndrome.
Hearing research - 1 Jul 1998
Cosgrove D, Samuelson G, Meehan D T, Miller C, McGee J, Walsh E J, Siegel M
Abstract excerpt
The cochleae from a COL4A3-deficient mouse line were examined for defects that might shed light on the molecular mechanism of otopathology observed in humans with Alport syndrome. At the light microscopic level no obvious defects were observed. Immunohistochemical analysis using antibodies specif...
Topics
- Animals
- Basement Membrane
- Cochlea
- Collagen
- Disease Models, Animal
- Endothelium
- Female
- Kidney Glomerulus
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Nephritis, Hereditary
- Stria Vascularis