Mice do not require auditory input for the normal development of their ultrasonic vocalizations

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a   Reisinger, Ellen ^b   Westekemper, Katharina ^a   Ehrenreich, Ludwig ^a   Strenzke, Nicola ^b   Fischer, Julia ^a,c  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

DFNB9; Evolution; Language; Mice; Ontogeny; Otoferlin; Speech; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TRAINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEARING; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OTOFERLIN PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84860140171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-40     Document Type: Article

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