Neural changes accompanying tinnitus following unilateral acoustic trauma in the guinea pig

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 2427-2441

  Coomber, Ben ^a   Berger, Joel I ^a   Kowalkowski, Victoria L ^a   Shackleton, Trevor M ^a   Palmer, Alan R ^a   Wallace, Mark N ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory; Behaviour; Electrophysiology; Inferior colliculus; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TINNITUS; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REACTION TIME; TINNITUS;

EID: 84904672168     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12580     Document Type: Article

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