In vitro modifications of the scala tympani environment and the cochlear implant array surface

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2057-2063

  Kontorinis, Georgios ^a   Scheper, Verena ^a   Wissel, Kirsten ^a   Stöver, Timo ^a,b   Lenarz, Thomas ^a   Paasche, Gerrit ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alginate; cochlear implant; fibroblasts; Healon; hyaluronic acid; insertion forces; neurotrophic factors

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; BARIUM CHLORIDE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; HYALURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FORCE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALA TYMPANI;

ALGINATES; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FLUOROSCOPY; GELS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SCALA TYMPANI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84865631545     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23408     Document Type: Article

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