Synaptopathy in the noise-exposed and aging cochlea: Primary neural degeneration in acquired sensorineural hearing loss

Hearing Research

Volumn 330, Issue , 2015, Pages 191-199

  Kujawa, Sharon G ^a,b   Liberman, M Charles ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; EFFERENT NERVE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAIR CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR HAIR CELL; COCHLEAR NERVE; DISEASE MODEL; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; GUINEA PIG; HEARING; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NOISE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; GUINEA PIGS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MICE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NOISE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84940173805     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2015.02.009     Document Type: Article

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