Kcna1 gene deletion lowers the behavioral sensitivity of mice to small changes in sound location and increases asynchronous brainstem auditory evoked potentials but does not affect hearing thresholds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2538-2543

  Allen, Paul D ^a   Ison, James R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING LOSS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DOWN-REGULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEARING; KV1.1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SOUND LOCALIZATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84857096655     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1958-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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