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Noise stresses the junctions to deaf
Karen B. Avraham *
Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
email: Karen B. Avraham (karena@post.tau.ac.il)

*Correspondence to Karen B. Avraham, Tel: 972-3-640-7030; Fax: 972-3-640-9360

Keywords
cochlea • hearing loss • noise • tight junctions • vezatin

Abstract
Sitting in the rainforest in Costa Rica, you can hear rain, rushing water, howling monkeys, birds and crickets. All are in abundance and although they are tantalizing to all your senses, your sense of hearing picks up what you cannot see with your eyes or feel with your hands.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1002/emmm.200900016  About DOI

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