Is noise-induced cochlear neuropathy key to the generation of hyperacusis or tinnitus?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 552-564

  Hickox, Ann E ^a,b   Liberman, M Charles ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Acoustic trauma; Auditory brainstem response; Noise induced hearing loss; Prepulse inhibition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CELL LOSS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NEUROPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EXPOSURE; HAIR CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERACTIVITY; INNER EAR DISEASE; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STARTLE REFLEX; SURVIVAL; TINNITUS;

ACOUSTIC STARTLE RESPONSE; ACOUSTIC TRAUMA; AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE; NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS; PREPULSE INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; COCHLEAR NERVE; HYPERACUSIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; NOISE; SENSORY GATING; TINNITUS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 84893418361     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00184.2013     Document Type: Article

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