Molecular characterization and prospective isolation of human fetal cochlear hair cell progenitors
Nature Communications, 2018 Sensory hair cells located in the organ of Corti are essential for cochlear mechanosensation. Their loss is irreversible in humans resulting in permanent hearing loss.
M. Roccio +5 more
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Compartmentalized and signal-selective gap junctional coupling in the hearing cochlea [PDF]
, 2006 Gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) plays a major role in cochlear function. Recent evidence suggests that connexin 26 (Cx26) and Cx30 are the major constituent proteins of cochlear gap junction channels, possibly in a unique heteromeric ...
Forge, A, Jagger, DJ
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Keratin-mediated hair growth and its underlying biological mechanism
Communications Biology, 2022 Injecting human hair-derived keratin into mice skin accelerates hair growth & formation, as TGFβ2 secretion during hair destruction stimulates epithelial cell death and keratin release, leading to dermal cell condensation & hair growth.
Seong Yeong An +10 more
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Selective deletion of cochlear hair cells causes rapid age-dependent changes in spiral ganglion and cochlear nucleus neurons [PDF]
, 2015 During nervous system development, critical periods are usually defined as early periods during which manipulations dramatically change neuronal structure or function, whereas the same manipulations in mature animals have little or no effect on the same ...
Hume, Clifford +8 more
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Transmission Disrupted: Modeling Auditory Synaptopathy in Zebrafish
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2018 Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common form of hearing loss in humans, and results from either dysfunction in hair cells, the sensory receptors of sound, or the neurons that innervate hair cells.
Katie S. Kindt, Lavinia Sheets
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Differentiation of mammalian vestibular hair cells from conditionally immortal, postnatal supporting cells [PDF]
, 1999 We provide evidence from a newly established, conditionally immortal cell line (UB/UE-1) that vestibular supporting cells from the mammalian inner ear can differentiate postnatally into more than one variant of hair cell.
Holley, M.C. +4 more
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The Contribution of Immune Infiltrates to Ototoxicity and Cochlear Hair Cell Loss
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2017 Cells of the immune system have been shown to infiltrate the cochlea after acoustic trauma or ototoxic drug treatment; however, the contribution of the immune system to hair cell loss in the inner ear is incompletely understood.
Megan B Wood, J. Zuo
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SNARE VTI13 plays a unique role in endosomal trafficking pathways associated with the vacuole and is essential for cell wall organization and root hair growth in arabidopsis [PDF]
, 2014 Background and Aims: Root hairs are responsible for water and nutrient uptake from the soil and their growth is responsive to biotic and abiotic changes in their environment.
Domozych, David S. +2 more
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A "synaptoplasmic cistern" mediates rapid inhibition of cochlear hair cells [PDF]
, 2004 Cochlear hair cells are inhibited by cholinergic efferent neurons. The acetylcholine (ACh) receptor of the hair cell is a ligand-gated cation channel through which calcium enters to activate potassium channels and hyperpolarize the cell.
Fuchs, Paul A. +7 more
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A Novel Antigen Sensitive to Calcium Chelation That is Associated with the Tip Links and Kinocilial Links of Sensory Hair Bundles [PDF]
, 2003 Tip links are extracellular, cell-surface-associated filaments of unknown molecular composition that are thought to gate the mechanotransducer channel of the sensory hair cell.
Goodyear, Richard J, Richardson, Guy P
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