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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2015

The elusive mechanotransduction machinery of hair cells.

Bo Zhao, Ulrich Müller

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Pharmacological Approaches to Hearing Loss.Pharmacological reviews · 2024
    Review
  5. Critical role of TPRN rings in the stereocilia for hearing.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
    Article
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  11. Mechanics to pre-process information for the fine tuning of mechanoreceptors.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019
    Review
  12. Article
  13. Molecular Composition of Vestibular Hair Bundles.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2019
    Review
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  17. Sensory Hair Cells: An Introduction to Structure and Physiology.Integrative and comparative biology · 2018
    Review
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  19. Lipid bilayer mediates ion-channel cooperativity in a model of hair-cell mechanotransduction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Bo ZhaoDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States.
Ulrich MüllerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States. Electronic address: umueller@scripps.edu.

Funding

Mechanosensor Development, Function, and DysfunctionR01DC005965 · NIDCD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI MUELLER, ULRICH · 2003 to 2023
$10.2M
Mouse models to study inherited forms of deafnessR01DC007704 · NIDCD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI MUELLER, ULRICH · 2005 to 2014
$5.0M
Functions of Myosin VII in Mechanosensory Hair CellsR01DC014427 · NIDCD · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI BARR-GILLESPIE, PETER GORDON, MUELLER, ULRICH · 2016 to 2020
$3.1M
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Interactions between Hair Cells and Neurons.R01DC014713 · NIDCD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI MUELLER, ULRICH · 2015 to 2019
$2.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS DC007704NIDCD NIH HHS DC014427NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC005965NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC007704NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC014713NIDCD NIH HHS UM DC005965
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hair cells in the mammalian cochlea are specialized sensory cells that convert mechanical signals evoked by sound waves into electrochemical signals. Several integral membrane proteins have recently been identified that are closely linked to the mechanotransduction process. Efforts are under way to determine the extent to which they are subunits of the long thought-after mechanotransduction channel. Recent findings also suggest that mechanotransduction may have a role in fine tuning the length of the stereocilia and thus in the regulation of morphological features of hair cells that are inherently linked to the mechanotransduction process.

Indexed as

AnimalsHair Cells, AuditoryHumansMechanotransduction, CellularMembrane ProteinsMorphogenesisMembrane Proteins

Identifiers

PMID26342686
PMCPMC4632855

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