BACKGROUND:Many researches on the development of cochlea have been made, but mainly depend on the pathological conditions and developmental deformity, while the researches on the development process of normal embryonic cochlea and expression of related factors are rare. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the expression of transforming growth factorβ1 in rat embryonic cochlea. METHODS:Fifty-six Sprague Dawley rats were selected and the rats were pregnancy, and the embryos were obtained from the rats, trimmed the inner ear specimens under the anatomical m...