… channels (gap junctions and hemichannels) may be targets for age-related hearing loss …
hemichannel-mediated ATP release and hearing controls in the inner earProc Natl Acad Sci …

… Connexin gap junctions play an important role in hearing … A gap junctional channel is formed
by two hemichannels. … membrane stress, and blocked by gap junctional blockers. We also …

… Similar hearing thresholds were measured in heterozygous and control mice. In contrast,
Cx26OtogCre mice showed a significant hearing loss, compared to heterozygous and control …

… R75W, which segregated with PPK and deafness in a family but was also found in a control
(the hearing ability of whom was unknown), failed to form functional channels and acted in a …

… highlighted involvement of gap junctions in the transfer of … hearing. Here, we summarise
the current knowledge about the molecular and functional properties of inner ear gap junctions, …

… We reveal a new efferent control pathway in which medial olivocochlear efferent fibers have
… to control their gap junctions, therefore regulating outer hair cell electromotility and hearing …

… ties in gap junctions of the supportive cells of the cochlea are responsible for hearing
impairment in patients with connexin mutations. This anomaly in gap junctions is expected to …

… Our results suggest that, by the onset of hearing, gap junctions between supporting cells
immediately adjacent to hair cells (Deiters’ cells, inner border cells) do not express Cx26-only …

… hearing sensitivity and frequency selectivity. Here we describe the novel finding that gap
junctions … OHC electromotility to control active cochlear mechanics and hearing sensitivity. …

… hereditary hearing impairment, we cloned the gene ( GJB3 ) encoding human gap junction
protein β… Amplification in the absence of cDNA transcript was used as a negative control. RNA …