Behavioral auditory thresholds and loss of ribbon synapses at inner hair cells in aged gerbils

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 84, Issue , 2016, Pages 61-70

  Gleich, Otto ^a   Semmler, Philipp ^a   Strutz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory; Cochlea; Presbyacusis; Sensorineural hearing loss; Synaptopathy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR INFECTION; GERBIL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOLOGY; INNER HAIR CELL; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RIBBON SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE; AGING; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYACUSIS; SPIRAL GANGLION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; GERBILLINAE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; PRESBYCUSIS; SPIRAL GANGLION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84985028758     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2016.08.011     Document Type: Article

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