Contralateral-noise effects on cochlear responses in anesthetized mice are dominated by feedback from an unknown pathway

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 491-500

  Maison, Stéphane F ^a,b   Usubuchi, Hajime ^a   Vetter, Douglas E ^c   Belen Elgoyhen A ^d   Thomas, Steven A ^e   Charles Liberman, M ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Efferent; Inner ear; Middle ear muscles; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; EFFERENT NERVE; FACIAL NERVE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MEDIAL OLIVOCOCHLEAR EFFERENT PATHWAY; MIDDLE EAR; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSOR TYMPANI MUSCLE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMALS; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COCHLEA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84864001348     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01050.2011     Document Type: Article

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