Cadmium-induced ototoxicity in rat cochlear organotypic cultures

Neurotoxicity Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 179-189

  Liu, Hong ^a,b   Ding, Dalian ^a,b,c   Sun, Hong ^a   Jiang, Haiyan ^b   Wu, Xuewen ^a,b   Roth, Jerome A ^d   Salvi, Richard ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c THE THIRD XIANGYA HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Hair cells; Nerve fibers; Spiral ganglion neurons

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; NEUROTOXIN;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; COCHLEA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR CELL; NERVE INJURY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIRAL GANGLION; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NICK END LABELING; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TOXICITY;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CADMIUM; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPIRAL GANGLION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84903815187     PISSN: 10298428     EISSN: 14763524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12640-014-9461-4     Document Type: Article

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