The BALB/C mouse as an animal model for progressive sensorineural hearing loss

Hearing Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 162-174

  Willott, James F ^a   Turner, Jeremy G ^a   Carlson, Stephanie ^a   Ding, Dalian ^b   Seegers Bross, Lori ^a   Falls, William A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hearing Research Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem response; Behavior; Cochlear histopathology; Cochlear nucleus; Inbred strain; Presbycusis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CELL LOSS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCOCHLEOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HAIR CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL GANGLION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CELL COUNT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL GANGLION;

EID: 0031929980     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(97)00189-5     Document Type: Article

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