Hair cell loss in the aged guinea pig cochlea

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 42-47

  Ingham, Neil J ^a   Comis, Spiro D ^b   Withington, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Presbycusis; Scanning electron microscopy; Sensory epithelia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0003479139     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016489950181918     Document Type: Article

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