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1Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
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The author of the accompanying classic paper from the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (Crouch JJ, Sakaguchi N, Lytle C, Schulte BA. Immunohistochemical localization of the Na-K-Cl Co-transporter (NKCC1) in the Gerbil Inner Ear. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry 1997;45(6):773-778) comments on how the immunohistochemical techniques used in the study provided critical new information that helped define the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the generation and maintenance of electrochemical gradients in the ear, particularly the presence of the Na,K,2Cl symporter (NKCC) in the inner ear. (J Histochem Cytochem 71: 509-510, 2023).
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