Hair Cells in Mouse Cochlea (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Hair Cells in Mouse Cochlea

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Top: Rows of healthy sensory hair cells in the mouse inner ear with green stereocilia arcs. Middle: In Rest mutant mice, hair cells are disorganized, and stereocilia barely visible. Bottom: In Rest mutant mice treated with HDAC inhibitors, organization and structure of hair cells is partially restored.

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Yoko Nakano, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, first published in Cell

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