background and aim: some risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea (osa) such as upper respiratory airways abnormalities and obesity overlap with the risk factors for eustachian tube dysfunction (etd). in this study, we investigated the prevalence of etd in a population of patients with osa. methods: tubal dysfunction was determined by tympanometry and inflation-deflation test in 36 patients dia...

stress fibers, do not contain cortactin. Despite the substantial size of the cortactin literature (currently the word “cortactin” appears in 339 articles), the most fundamental questions are still open. Thus, although cortactin has been implicated in the above-mentioned processes, its exact role is still not clearly defined. Its obvious participation in many of these fundamental events together...