Thyroid hormone deficiency before the onset of hearing causes irreversible damage to peripheral and central auditory systems

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 3101-3112

  Knipper, Marlies ^a,b   Zinn, Christoph ^a   Maier, Hannes ^a   Praetorius, Mark ^a   Rohbock, Karin ^a   Köpschall, Iris ^a   Zimmermann, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; DEVELOPMENT; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNER EAR; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROID FUNCTION;

EID: 0034117804     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.5.3101     Document Type: Article

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