Connexin30 deficiency causes instrastrial fluid-blood barrier disruption within the cochlear stria v...
Connexin30 deficiency causes instrastrial fluid-blood barrier disruption within the cochlear stria vascularis
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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English
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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The endocochlear potential (EP) is essential to hearing, because it provides approximately half of the driving force for the mechanoelectrical transduction current in auditory hair cells. The EP is produced by the stria vascularis (SV), a vascularized bilayer epithelium of the cochlea lateral wall. The absence of the gap junction protein connexin30...
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Connexin30 deficiency causes instrastrial fluid-blood barrier disruption within the cochlear stria vascularis
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_201400391
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_201400391
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.0605108104
