Loss of auditory sensitivity from inner hair cell synaptopathy can be centrally compensated in the young but not old brain

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 44, Issue , 2016, Pages 173-184

  Möhrle, Dorit ^a   Ni, Kun ^a,b   Varakina, Ksenya ^a   Bing, Dan ^a   Lee, Sze Chim ^a   Zimmermann, Ulrike ^a   Knipper, Marlies ^a   Rüttiger, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age related hearing loss; Central compensation; Inner hair cell synaptopathy; Presbycusis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INNER HAIR CELL; INNER HAIR CELL SYNAPTOPATHY; LATENT PERIOD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; AGING; ANIMAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84979201690     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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