Cochlear neuropathy in human presbycusis: Confocal analysis of hidden hearing loss in post-mortem tissue

Hearing Research

Volumn 327, Issue , 2015, Pages 78-88

  Viana, Lucas M ^c   O'Malley, Jennifer T ^b   Burgess, Barbara J ^b   Jones, Dianne D ^b   Oliveira, Carlos A C P ^c   Santos, Felipe ^a,b   Merchant, Saumil N ^a,b   Liberman, Leslie D ^b   Liberman, M Charles ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; COCHLEAR NEUROPATHY; EFFERENT NERVE; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNER EAR DISEASE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE; SPIRAL LAMINA; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOPSY; AXON; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR HAIR CELL; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INNERVATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; SPIRAL GANGLION; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL BONE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOPSY; AXONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRESBYCUSIS; SPIRAL GANGLION; SYNAPSES; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 84930651549     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2015.04.014     Document Type: Article

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