Previous work in animals with recovered hearing thresholds but permanent inner hair cell
synapse loss after noise have suggested initial vulnerability of low spontaneous rate (SR) …

Recent studies on animal models have shown that noise exposure that does not lead to
permanent threshold shift (PTS) can cause considerable damage around the synapses …

Permanent threshold elevation after noise exposure or aging is caused by loss of sensory
cells; however, animal studies show that hair cell loss is often preceded by degeneration of …

Acoustic overexposure can cause a permanent loss of auditory nerve fibers without
destroying cochlear sensory cells, despite complete recovery of cochlear thresholds, as …

For decades, studies on noise-induced hearing loss have been focusing on the loss of
sensory hair cells and/or auditory afferent fibers following severe noise exposure. Recently …

Acute noise-induced loss of synapses between inner hair cells (IHCs) and auditory nerve
fibers (ANFs) has been documented in several strains of mice, but the extent of post …

Objectives: In mammals, a 2-hr exposure to an octave-band noise (OBN) at 100 to 108 dB
SPL induces loss of synaptic ribbons between inner hair cells and auditory nerve fibers with …

In animals, noise exposures that produce robust temporary threshold shifts (TTS) can
produce immediate damage to afferent synapses and long-term degeneration of low …

Recent evidence has shown that noise-induced damage to the synapse between inner hair
cells (IHCs) and type I afferent auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) may occur in the absence of …

Noise-exposure at levels low enough to avoid a permanent threshold shift has been found to
cause a massive, delayed degeneration of spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) in mouse …