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Molecular mechanism of autoimmune hearing loss
1Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis 38163, USA. tyoo@utmem.edu
Acta Oto-Laryngologica. Supplementum
|September 5, 2002
Abstract:
Molecules considered as autoantigens in autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss and Meniere's diseases are type II collagens, type IX collagens, 30 kD proteins of inner ear membranes, laminin, 68 kD proteins of inner ear, PO protein, Raf I protein and beta-tubulin are reviewed in relation to molecular mechanisms of autoimmune injury of inner ear resulting in hearing loss.