behavior/neurological
• failed to exhibit a startle reflex in response to loud noise
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head bobbing
(
J:93174
)
• distinctive head shaking by P7
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• by P7
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hearing/vestibular/ear
• lack of a consistent staircase arrangement of stereocilia on outer hair cells with numerous ectopic microvilli
• exhibited numerous extensions that were significantly longer than normal stereocilia
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• the presence of actin-rich structures, known as cytocauds
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• at the apical surface of sensory hair cells, qualitatively thin and disorganized stereocilia on inner hair cells
• exhibited numerous extensions that were significantly longer than normal stereocilia
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• the presence of actin-rich structures, known as cytocauds
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• no response to tones at any frequency in 10 weeks old mutant mice at even the highest intensity levels
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nervous system
• lack of a consistent staircase arrangement of stereocilia on outer hair cells with numerous ectopic microvilli
• exhibited numerous extensions that were significantly longer than normal stereocilia
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• the presence of actin-rich structures, known as cytocauds
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• at the apical surface of sensory hair cells, qualitatively thin and disorganized stereocilia on inner hair cells
• exhibited numerous extensions that were significantly longer than normal stereocilia
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• the presence of actin-rich structures, known as cytocauds
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