Factors influencing neurotrophic effects of electrical stimulation in the deafened developing auditory system

Hearing Research

Volumn 242, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 86-99

  Leake, Patricia A ^a   Stakhovskaya, Olga ^a   Hradek, Gary T ^a   Hetherington, Alexander M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory deprivation; Auditory nerve; Cochlear implant; Cochlear nucleus; Cochlear spiral ganglion; Electrical stimulation; GM1 ganglioside; Neonatal deafness; Neurotrophins; Primary afferents; Selegiline

Indexed keywords

NEOMYCIN; NEUROTROPHIN;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CATS; CELL SURVIVAL; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DEAFNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; G(M1) GANGLIOSIDE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOMYCIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SPIRAL GANGLION;

EID: 48449096123     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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