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Disruption of Otoferlin Alters the Mode of Exocytosis at the Mouse Inner Hair Cell Ribbon Synapse

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Published in 2019 at "Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience"

DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00492

Abstract: Sound encoding relies on Ca2+-mediated exocytosis at the ribbon synapse between cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) and type I spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs). Otoferlin, a multi-C2 domain protein, is proposed to regulate Ca2+-triggered exocytosis at… read more here.

Keywords: synapse; inner hair; ribbon synapse; exocytosis ... See more keywords