Absence of strial melanin coincides with age-associated marginal cell loss and endocochlear potential decline

Hearing Research

Volumn 249, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Ohlemiller, Kevin K ^a,b,c   Rybak Rice, Mary E ^c   Lett, Jaclynn M ^a,b   Gagnon, Patricia M ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; C57BL 6; Cochlea; Fibrocytes; Hair cells; Mouse; Presbycusis; Spiral ganglion; Spiral ligament; Stria vascularis

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CELL COUNT; COCHLEAR MICROPHONIC POTENTIALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MALE; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEURONS; PIGMENTATION; PRESBYCUSIS; STRIA VASCULARIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 60849123899     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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