Cochlear efferents in developing adult and pathological conditions

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 361, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 301-309

  Nouvian, Régis ^a,b,c   Eybalin, Michel ^a,b,c   Puel, Jean Luc ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve fibers; Cochlea; Hair cells; Hearing; Innervation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; DOPAMINE; DYNORPHIN; ENKEPHALIN; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; DOPAMINE RELEASE; EXCITOTOXICITY; HUMAN; INNER HAIR CELL; LATERAL SUPERIOR OLIVE; MEDIAL OLIVOCOCHLEAR COMPONENT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OTOTOXICITY; OUTER HAIR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SPIRAL GANGLION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRAPEZOID BODY; VESTIBULAR NERVE; COCHLEAR HAIR CELL; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; HEARING; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

COCHLEA; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING; HUMANS; NEURONS, EFFERENT;

EID: 84933673713     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-015-2158-z     Document Type: Review

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