N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors Involvement in the Gentamicin-Induced Hearing Loss and Pathological Changes of Ribbon Synapse in the Mouse Cochlear Inner Hair Cells

Cochlear inner hair cell (IHC) ribbon synapses play an important role in sound encoding and neurotransmitter release. Previous reports show that both noise and aminoglycoside exposures lead to reduced numbers and morphologic changes of synaptic ribbons. In this work, we determined the distribution o...

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Main Authors: Juan Hong, Yan Chen, Yanping Zhang, Jieying Li, Liujie Ren, Lin Yang, Lusen Shi, Ao Li, Tianyu Zhang, Huawei Li, Peidong Dai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
Series:Neural Plasticity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3989201