Current concepts in age-related hearing loss: Epidemiology and mechanistic pathways

Hearing Research

Volumn 303, Issue , 2013, Pages 30-38

  Yamasoba, Tatsuya ^a   Lin, Frank R ^b,c   Someya, Shinichi ^d   Kashio, Akinori ^a   Sakamoto, Takashi ^a   Kondo, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOACCUMULATION; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL LOSS; COCHLEA BLOOD FLOW; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HAIR CELL; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRESBYACUSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; SPIRAL GANGLION; STRIA VASCULARIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRESBYCUSIS; PREVALENCE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84880576072     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.01.021     Document Type: Review

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