Modulation of hair cell efferents

Hearing Research

Volumn 279, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Wersinger, Eric ^a   Fuchs, Paul Albert ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED ION CHANNEL;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COCHLEA; EFFERENT NERVE; FACILITATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; OLIVOCOCHLEAR FUNCTION; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COCHLEA; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PERMEABILITY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80052771778     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.12.018     Document Type: Review

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