Reduced spiral ganglion neuronal loss by adjunctive neurotrophin-3 in experimental pneumococcal meningitis

BACKGROUND: Hearing loss is a frequent long-term complication of pneumococcal meningitis (PM). Its main pathological correlate is damage to the organ of Corti and loss of spiral ganglion neurons. The only current treatment option is cochlear implants which require surviving neurons. Here, we investi...

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Autores principales: Demel, Cornelia, Hoegen, Tobias, Giese, Armin, Angele, Barbara, Pfister, Hans-Walter, Koedel, Uwe, Klein, Matthias
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21261959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-2094-8-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21261959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-2094-8-7

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