title: Noise stresses the junctions to deaf.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. karena@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Karen B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Avraham
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003638:Deafness / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D017353:Gene Deletion; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D007365:Intercellular Junctions / Q000473:pathology*; D051379:Mice; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics; D013312:Stress, Physiological