Ventral cochlear nucleus responses to contralateral sound are mediated by commissural and olivocochlear pathways

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 886-900

  Bledsoe Jr , Sanford C ^a   Koehler, Seth ^a,c   Tucci, Debara L ^d   Zhou, Jianxun ^a   Le Prell, Colleen ^e   Shore, Susan E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELITTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HEARING LOSS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINE; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUINEA PIGS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; MALLEUS; MELITTEN; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION;

EID: 68149172522     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91003.2008     Document Type: Article

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