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Otoconial agenesis in tilted mutant mice.
Hearing research - 1 Aug 1998
Ornitz D M, Bohne B A, Thalmann I, Harding G W, Thalmann R
Abstract excerpt
The sense of balance is one of the phylogenetically oldest sensory systems. The vestibular organs, consisting of sensory hair cells and an overlying extracellular membrane, have been conserved throughout vertebrate evolution. To better understand mechanisms regulating vestibular development and mechanisms of vestibular pathophysiology, we have analyzed the mouse mutant, tilted (tlt), which has dysfunction of the...
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