hearing/vestibular/ear
• strial capillaries show dilation in patches in some mice at P56
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• 5 week old severely hearing impaired mice show some abnormalities of the organ of Corti
• however, no gross anatomical defects are seen in the middle ear, ossicles, or inner ear
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• mice with click thresholds of 95dB SPL or no ABRs show outer hair cell degeneration from the middle turn of the cochlea towards the base
• mice exhibit a base-to-apex gradient in hair cell degeneration
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• strial marginal cell boundaries are less regular at P28, showing a mixture of larger and smaller boundaries, losing their normal hexagonal/pentagonal shapes, and by P56, some extremely large or small marginal cell boundaries
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• stria vascularis shows degenerative changes
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• endocochlear potential is reduced by 4 and 8 weeks of age
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• mice show a wide range of auditory sensitivity at 4 weeks of age and higher auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) at 8 and 14 weeks indicating progressive deterioration of ABRs with increasing age
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• while 2 week old mice have normal hearing, by 4 weeks of age, most mice show variable degrees of hearing impairment which becomes severe in all mice by 14 weeks indicating an early onset of progressive hearing loss
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nervous system
• mice with click thresholds of 95dB SPL or no ABRs show outer hair cell degeneration from the middle turn of the cochlea towards the base
• mice exhibit a base-to-apex gradient in hair cell degeneration
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cardiovascular system
• strial capillaries show dilation in patches in some mice at P56
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Mouse Models of Human Disease |
DO ID | OMIM ID(s) | Ref(s) | |
autosomal recessive nonsyndromic deafness 68 | DOID:0110519 |
OMIM:610419 |
J:240361 |