Age-related hearing loss in C57BL/6J mice has both frequency-specific and non-frequency-specific components that produce a hyperacusis-like exaggeration of the acoustic startle reflex

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 539-550

  Ison, James R ^a,b   Allen, Paul D ^a   O'Neill, William E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hearing loss; Mixed strial sensory presbycusis; Plasticity; Startle; Tinnitus hyperacusis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TINNITUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HYPERACUSIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REFLEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 35848931692     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-007-0098-3     Document Type: Article

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