Auditory midbrain implant: Histomorphologic effects of long-term implantation and electric stimulation of a new deep brain stimulation array

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1045-1052

  Lenarz, Minoo ^a,b   Lim, Hubert H ^a   Lenarz, Thomas ^a   Reich, Uta ^a   Marquardt, Nadine ^a   Klingberg, Marc N ^a   Paasche, Gerrit ^a   Reuter, Günter ^a   Stan, Alexandru C ^b  

^a Department of Otolaryngology ^*  (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory midbrain implant; Chronic implantation; DBS; Electric stimulation; Glial reaction; Inferior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MIDBRAIN IMPLANT; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAT; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOLOGY; IMPLANT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION;

EID: 36549040107     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318159e74f     Document Type: Article

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