Fast and slow effects of medial olivocochlear efferent activity in humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Dhar, Sumitrajit ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL OLIVOCOCHLEAR EFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; TIME; VIBRATION; COCHLEA; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAVIA;

ADULT; COCHLEA; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954564119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018725     Document Type: Article

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