The effect of supplemental dietary Taurine on Tinnitus and auditory discrimination in an animal model

Hearing Research

Volumn 270, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 71-80

  Brozoski, Thomas J ^a   Caspary, Donald M ^a   Bauer, Carol A ^a   Richardson, Benjamin D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TINNITUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG PARTIAL AGONISM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; TAURINE; TIME FACTORS; TINNITUS;

EID: 78649878918     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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