Article
Analysis of inner ear potassium recycling genes as potential factors associated with tinnitus.
International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health - 1 Sept 2012
Pawełczyk Małgorzata, Rajkowska Elżbieta, Kotyło Piotr, Dudarewicz Adam, Van Camp Guy, Śliwińska-Kowalska Mariola
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Tinnitus is defined as a perception of sound in the absence of an external acoustic stimulus. Several factors are known to influence tinnitus, e.g. hearing loss, noise exposure, age, and hypertension. As only certain individuals develop tinnitus in the presence of the above risks and in approximately 50% of cases tinnitus is not attributed to any particular cause, the question arose whether this...
Topics
- Case-Control Studies
- Ear, Inner
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced
- Humans
- Male
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Potassium
- Potassium Channels, Voltage-Gated
- Solute Carrier Family 12, Member 2