Spectrin Proteins Are a Crucial Anchor in Hearing (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Spectrin Proteins Are a Crucial Anchor in Hearing (1 of 2)

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Super-resolution fluorescence imaging reveals a previously unseen structure of cytoskeleton in inner ear hair cells. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 17th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Liu at iHuman Institute in Shanghai, China, and colleagues was titled, "Critical role of spectrin in hearing development and deafness."

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[Credit: ZHUOJIA LIU, SHOOL OF CREATIVITY AND ART AT SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY]

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