Bernd Fritzsch

Cochlear whole mount in situ hybridization: identification of longitudinal and radial gradients.

Distinct requirements for TrkB and TrkC signaling in target innervation by sensory neurons.

The developmental segregation of posterior crista and saccular vestibular fibers in mice: a carbocyanine tracer study using confocal microscopy.

Auditory system development: primary auditory neurons and their targets.

Antimicrobial peptides and protease inhibitors in the skin secretions of the crawfish frog, Rana areolata.

Chick hair cells do not exhibit voltage-dependent somatic motility.

Brn3c null mutant mice show long-term, incomplete retention of some afferent inner ear innervation.

Partial segregation of posterior crista and saccular fibers to the nodulus and uvula of the cerebellum in mice, and its development.

Expression and function of FGF10 in mammalian inner ear development.

Development of inner ear afferent connections: forming primary neurons and connecting them to the developing sensory epithelia.

Development of vestibular afferent projections into the hindbrain and their central targets.

Neuropilin-1 conveys semaphorin and VEGF signaling during neural and cardiovascular development.

Nkx6.1 controls migration and axon pathfinding of cranial branchio-motoneurons.

Innervation of the maxillary vibrissae in mice as revealed by anterograde and retrograde tract tracing.

Neurotrophins in the ear: their roles in sensory neuron survival and fiber guidance.

Abdominal vagal mediation of the satiety effects of CCK in rats.

NT-3 replacement with brain-derived neurotrophic factor redirects vestibular nerve fibers to the cochlea.

Inner hair cell Cre-expressing transgenic mouse.

Creation of a transgenic mouse for hair-cell gene targeting by using a modified bacterial artificial chromosome containing Prestin.

Time course of embryonic midbrain and thalamic auditory connection development in mice as revealed by carbocyanine dye tracing.

Cranial sensory neuron development in the absence of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in BDNF/Bax double null mice.

Eya1 and Six1 are essential for early steps of sensory neurogenesis in mammalian cranial placodes.

The retinoblastoma gene pathway regulates the postmitotic state of hair cells of the mouse inner ear.

Ancestry of Photic and Mechanic Sensation?

Ancestry of photic and mechanic sensation?

Mutant mice reveal the molecular and cellular basis for specific sensory connections to inner ear epithelia and primary nuclei of the brain.

Differential expression of KCNQ4 in inner hair cells and sensory neurons is the basis of progressive high-frequency hearing loss.

The ear of Latimeria chalumnae revisited.

The development of the hindbrain afferent projections in the axolotl: evidence for timing as a specific mechanism of afferent fiber sorting.

Conditional and inducible gene recombineering in the mouse inner ear.

Development and evolution of the vestibular sensory apparatus of the mammalian ear.

A disorganized innervation of the inner ear persists in the absence of ErbB2.

Cells, molecules and morphogenesis: the making of the vertebrate ear.

Foxg1 is required for morphogenesis and histogenesis of the mammalian inner ear.

Comparative analysis of neurotrophin receptors and ligands in vertebrate neurons: tools for evolutionary stability or changes in neural circuits?

The molecular basis of neurosensory cell formation in ear development: a blueprint for hair cell and sensory neuron regeneration?

Developmental expression of Kcnq4 in vestibular neurons and neurosensory epithelia.

Disruption of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 signaling results in defects in cellular differentiation, neuronal patterning, and hearing impairment.

Targeted knockout and lacZ reporter expression of the mouse Tmhs deafness gene and characterization of the hscy-2J mutation.

The molecular biology of ear development - "Twenty years are nothing".

Molecular evolution of the vertebrate mechanosensory cell and ear.

Long-distance three-color neuronal tracing in fixed tissue using NeuroVue dyes.

MicroRNA-183 family conservation and ciliated neurosensory organ expression.

Orbital spaceflight during pregnancy shapes function of mammalian vestibular system.

Evolutionary insights into the unique electromotility motor of mammalian outer hair cells.

Regenerating cochlear hair cells: quo vadis stem cell.

Eya1 gene dosage critically affects the development of sensory epithelia in the mammalian inner ear.

Cloning and developmental expression of the soxB2 genes, sox14 and sox21, during Xenopus laevis embryogenesis.

Lmx1a is required for segregation of sensory epithelia and normal ear histogenesis and morphogenesis.

Sox2 signaling in prosensory domain specification and subsequent hair cell differentiation in the developing cochlea.

Residual microRNA expression dictates the extent of inner ear development in conditional Dicer knockout mice.

Differential and overlapping expression pattern of SOX2 and SOX9 in inner ear development.

Defects in the cerebella of conditional Neurod1 null mice correlate with effective Tg(Atoh1-cre) recombination and granule cell requirements for Neurod1 for differentiation.

Deletion of an enhancer near DLX5 and DLX6 in a family with hearing loss, craniofacial defects, and an inv(7)(q21.3q35).

Atoh1-lineal neurons are required for hearing and for the survival of neurons in the spiral ganglion and brainstem accessory auditory nuclei.

Disorganized innervation and neuronal loss in the inner ear of Slitrk6-deficient mice.

Dog genome evolution: a strategy to segregate biogeographic effects from human selection.

Canal cristae growth and fiber extension to the outer hair cells of the mouse ear require Prox1 activity.

Development and organization of polarity-specific segregation of primary vestibular afferent fibers in mice.

The role of bHLH genes in ear development and evolution: revisiting a 10-year-old hypothesis.

Neurod1 regulates survival and formation of connections in mouse ear and brain.

Atypical cadherins Celsr1-3 differentially regulate migration of facial branchiomotor neurons in mice.

Neurod1 suppresses hair cell differentiation in ear ganglia and regulates hair cell subtype development in the cochlea.

Pax2 and Pax8 cooperate in mouse inner ear morphogenesis and innervation.

PLCγ-activated signalling is essential for TrkB mediated sensory neuron structural plasticity.

Conditional deletion of Atoh1 using Pax2-Cre results in viable mice without differentiated cochlear hair cells that have lost most of the organ of Corti.

The role of sensory organs and the forebrain for the development of the craniofacial shape as revealed by Foxg1-cre-mediated microRNA loss.

Dissecting the molecular basis of organ of Corti development: Where are we now?

Mutations in prickle orthologs cause seizures in flies, mice, and humans.

Transplantation of Xenopus laevis ears reveals the ability to form afferent and efferent connections with the spinal cord.

Hoxb3 negatively regulates Hoxb1 expression in mouse hindbrain patterning.

MicroRNA-183 family expression in hair cell development and requirement of microRNAs for hair cell maintenance and survival.

The molecular basis of making spiral ganglion neurons and connecting them to hair cells of the organ of Corti.

Conditional deletion of N-Myc disrupts neurosensory and non-sensory development of the ear.

Limited inner ear morphogenesis and neurosensory development are possible in the absence of GATA3.

Regeneration of Hair Cells: Making Sense of All the Noise.

Scanning thin-sheet laser imaging microscopy elucidates details on mouse ear development.

A novel atoh1 "self-terminating" mouse model reveals the necessity of proper atoh1 level and duration for hair cell differentiation and viability.

Expression of neurog1 instead of atoh1 can partially rescue organ of corti cell survival.

Mutational ataxia resulting from abnormal vestibular acquisition and processing is partially compensated for.