Age-related cochlear synaptopathy: An early-onset contributor to auditory functional decline

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 34, 2013, Pages 13686-13694

  Sergeyenko, Yevgeniya ^a   Lall, Kumud ^a,b   Charles Liberman, M ^a,b   Kujawa, Sharon G ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR SYNAPTOPATHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAIR CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INNER EAR DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPIRAL GANGLION; SYNAPSE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR DISEASES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPIRAL GANGLION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84882720760     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1783-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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