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SUBMITTER: Engle JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3563598 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Engle James R JR Tinling Steve S Recanzone Gregg H GH
PloS one 20130204 2
Audiometric hearing deficits are a common symptom of age-related hearing loss (ARHL), as are specific histopathological changes in the cochlea; however, very little data have been collected in non-human primates. To examine this relationship further, we collected auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) from rhesus monkeys spanning in age from 10 to 35 years old, and examined four different morphological features of their cochleae. We found significant correlations between ABR thresholds and the loss ...[more]