Associate Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology
Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Boston University School of Medicine
80 E. Concord Street, L813
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-4530
Fax:(617) 638-4531
E-mail: dcotanche@cajal-1.bu.edu
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Hearing Research
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BA, Zoology, Theatre, University of New Hampshire
Ph.D., Anatomy, University of North Carolina
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Cotanche is working on developmental factors which regulate the growth of hair cells in the cochlea during normal embryonic development and in regeneration following noise-induced trauma.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Ann Riedl, Anne Hennig
Graduate Student: Toni Freeman, Cyrus Torchinsky
Selected Recent Publications:
Epstein, J.E. and Cotanche, D.A. (1995) "Gentamicin induced secretion of a new basal layer of tectorial membrane during hair cell regeneration". Hearing Research, 90: 31-43.
Lee, K.H. and Cotanche, D.A. (1995) "Detection of b-actin mRNA by RT-PCR in normal and regenerating chicken cochleae". Hearing Research, 87: 9-15.
Cotanche, D.A., Lee, K.H., Stone,J.S. and Picard, D.A. (1994) "Hair cell regeneration in the bird cochlea following noise damage or ototoxic drug damage: A review." Anatomy & Embryology, 189: 1-18.
Stone, J.S. and Cotanche,D.A (1994) "Identification of the timing of S phase and the patterns of cell proliferation during hair cell regeneration in the chick cochlea." J. Comp. Neurology, 341: 50-67.
Cotanche, D.A. and Lee, K.H. (1994) "Regeneration of hair cells in the vestibulocochlear system of birds and mammals.", Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4: 509-514.
Freeman, D.M., Cotanche, D.A, Ehsani, F.. and Weiss, T.F. (1994)"The osmotic response of the isolated tectorial membrane of the chick to isosmotic solutions: Effect of Na+, K+, and Ca2+ concentration.", Hearing Research, 79: 197-215.