The thrifty phenotype hypothesis proposes that the epidemiological associations between
poor fetal and infant growth and the subsequent development of type 2 diabetes and the …

In mammals, the initial bridge between the physical world of sound and perception of that
sound is established by neurons of the spiral ganglion. The cell bodies of these neurons …

The cochlea within the inner ear contains the cells responsible for the perception of sound.
Unfortunately for researchers, the structures of interest are housed in a rather inaccessible …

A New Zealand and a Scottish pedigree with maternally inherited sensorineural deafness
were both previously shown to carry a heteroplasmic A7445G mutation in the mitochondrial …

In a large consanguineous family of Turkish origin, genome-wide homozygosity mapping
revealed a locus for recessive nonsyndromic hearing impairment on chromosome 14q24. 3 …

Whole mounts and tissue sections of the organ of Corti from two representative mammaian
species, the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) and the guinea pig (Cavea porcellus) …

The inner ear is structurally complex. A molecular description of its architecture is now
emerging from the use of contemporary methods of cell and molecular biology, and from …

The intermediate filament glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a classic marker for several
types of glial cells, including astrocytes and nonmyelinating Schwann cells. The pattern of …

Background Our knowledge about the neural code in the auditory nerve is based to a large
extent on experiments on cats. Several anatomical differences between auditory neurons in …

Intermediate filament proteins (IFPs) are important markers of tissue differentiation and have
been receiving increasing interest, in particular, through their applicability in the …