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Current concepts in age-related hearing loss: epidemiology and mechanistic pathways.
Hearing research - 1 Sept 2013
Yamasoba Tatsuya, Lin Frank R, Someya Shinichi, Kashio Akinori, Sakamoto Takashi, Kondo Kenji
Abstract excerpt
Age-related hearing loss (AHL), also known as presbycusis, is a universal feature of mammalian aging and is characterized by a decline of auditory function, such as increased hearing thresholds and poor frequency resolution. The primary pathology of AHL includes the hair cells, stria vascularis, and afferent spiral ganglion neurons as well as the central auditory pathways. A growing body of evidence in animal...
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