Connexin 43 and hearing: Possible implications for retrocochlear auditory processing

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3185-3193

  Kim, Ana H ^a,b   Nahm, Edmund ^c   Sollas, Anne ^b   Mattiace, Linda ^b   Rozental, Renato ^b  

^a NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin 43; hearing loss; retrocochlear auditory pathway

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; HEARING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

CONNEXIN 43; HEARING LOSS; RETROCOCHLEAR AUDITORY PATHWAY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 84888439105     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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