Short-term plasticity and auditory processing in the ventral cochlear nucleus of normal and hearing-impaired animals

Hearing Research

Volumn 279, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 131-139

  Wang, Yong ^a,b   O'Donohue, Heather ^c   Manis, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALCIUM CHANNEL; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVIEW; SHORT TERM SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80052750508     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.04.018     Document Type: Review

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