Zinc as a possible treatment for tinnitus

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 166, Issue , 2007, Pages 279-285

  Coelho, Claudia Barros ^a   Tyler, Richard ^a   Hansen, Marlan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

deficiency; hypozincemia; mineral supplements; tinnitus; zinc

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; PLACEBO; ZINC;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOPENIA; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MEASUREMENT; NAUSEA; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUTROPENIA; PHONOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TINNITUS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

HUMANS; TINNITUS; ZINC;

EID: 35348845705     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)66026-9     Document Type: Review

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