Transcription factor Emx2 controls stereociliary bundle orientation of sensory hair cells
eLife, 2017 The asymmetric location of stereociliary bundle (hair bundle) on the apical surface of mechanosensory hair cells (HCs) dictates the direction in which a given HC can respond to cues such as sound, head movements, and water pressure.
Tao Jiang, Katie Kindt, Doris K Wu
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The tip-link antigen, a protein associated with the transduction complex of sensory hair cells, is protocadherin-15 [PDF]
, 2006 Sound and acceleration are detected by hair bundles, mechanosensory structures located at the apical pole of hair cells in the inner ear. The different elements of the hair bundle, the stereocilia and a kinocilium, are interconnected by a variety of link
Ahmed, Zubair M +14 more
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Age-dependent structural reorganization of utricular ribbon synapses
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 In mammals, spatial orientation is synaptically-encoded by sensory hair cells of the vestibular labyrinth. Vestibular hair cells (VHCs) harbor synaptic ribbons at their presynaptic active zones (AZs), which play a critical role in molecular scaffolding ...
Susann Michanski +28 more
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Inner ear morphology in the Atlantic molly Poecilia mexicana [PDF]
, 2011 Fishes show an amazing diversity in hearing abilities, inner ear structures, and otolith morphology. Inner ear morphology, however, has not yet been investigated in detail in any member of the diverse order Cyprinodontiformes.
Hess, Martin +2 more
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The blood labyrinthine barrier in the human normal and Meniere's disease macula utricle. [PDF]
, 2017 The ultrastructural organization of the blood labyrinthine barrier (BLB) was investigated in the human vestibular endorgan, the utricular macula, using postmortem specimens from individuals with documented normal auditory and vestibular function and ...
Ishiyama, Akira +4 more
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Defective Tmprss3-Associated Hair Cell Degeneration in Inner Ear Organoids [PDF]
, 2019 Mutations in the gene encoding the type II transmembrane protease 3 (TMPRSS3) cause human hearing loss, although the underlying mechanisms that result in TMPRSS3-related hearing loss are still unclear.
Alex, Alpha L. +8 more
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Comparison of Phenotypes between Different \(vangl2\) Mutants Demonstrates Dominant Effects of the \(Looptail\) Mutation during Hair Cell Development [PDF]
, 2012 Experiments utilizing the \(Looptail\) mutant mouse, which harbors a missense mutation in the \(vangl2\) gene, have been essential for studies of planar polarity and linking the function of the core planar cell polarity proteins to other developmental ...
Copley, Catherine O. +3 more
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Co-transduction of dual-adeno-associated virus vectors in the neonatal and adult mouse utricles
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2022 Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene transfer is an efficient method of gene over-expression in the vestibular end organs. However, AAV has limited usefulness for delivering a large gene, or multiple genes, due to its small packaging capacity (<
Zhong-Rui Chen +19 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 Objective: To compare utricular dysfunction with saccular dysfunction in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), based on ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMP) and cervical VEMP (cVEMP), respectively.Materials and Methods: We ...
Gang Chen +6 more
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Unilateral enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome and bilateral endolymphatic hydrops [PDF]
, 2017 Enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) syndrome is a common congenital inner ear malformation characterized by a vestibular aqueduct with a diameter larger than 1.5 mm, mixed or sensorineural hearing loss that ranges from mild to profound, and vestibular ...
NOLA, GIUSEPPE +3 more
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