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SUBMITTER: Xiong W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4241755 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xiong Wei W Wagner Thomas T Yan Linxuan L Grillet Nicolas N Müller Ulrich U
Nature protocols 20140918 10
Mechanosensation, the transduction of mechanical force into electrochemical signals, allows organisms to detect touch and sound, to register movement and gravity, and to sense changes in cell volume and shape. The hair cells of the mammalian inner ear are the mechanosensors for the detection of sound and head movement. The analysis of gene function in hair cells has been hampered by the lack of an efficient gene transfer method. Here we describe a method termed injectoporation that combines tiss ...[more]