Ultrastructural damage to the organ of Corti during acute experimental Escherichia coli and pneumococcal meningitis in guinea pigs

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 401-407

  Winter, Andrew ^a   Marwick, Sarah ^a   Osborne, Michael ^a   Comis, Spiro ^a   Stephen, John ^a   Tarlow, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Hearing loss; Scanning electron microscopy; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORTI ORGAN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; INNER EAR DISEASE; MALE; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030060191     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489609137864     Document Type: Article

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