The role of the cochlear efferent system in acquired resistance to noise-induced hearing loss

Hearing Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 191-203

  Zheng, Xiang Yang ^a   Henderson, Donald ^a   McFadden, Sandra L ^a   Hu, Bo Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic trauma; cochlear innervation; hair cell loss; histochemistry; toughening

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHINCHILLA; HAIR CELL; HISTOCHEMISTRY; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS, EFFERENT; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0031081801     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(96)00187-6     Document Type: Article

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