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A radical demise. Toxins and trauma share common pathways in hair cell deathR Kopke
DoD Spatial Orientation Center, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California 92134, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 884:171-91. 1999..Finally, examples of novel therapeutic strategies to prevent and reverse hearing loss due to noise and/or ototoxins are presented to illustrate the clinical relevance of these new findings...
Candidate's thesis: enhancing intrinsic cochlear stress defenses to reduce noise-induced hearing lossRichard D Kopke
Department of Defence Spatial Orientation Center, Naval Medical Center San Diego, California 92134, USA
Laryngoscope 112:1515-32. 2002..The objective of this study was to document the reduction in noise-induced hearing and hair cell loss, following application of ALCAR, carbamathione, and a GSH repletion drug D-methionine (MET), to a model of noise-induced hearing loss...
Distribution of PLGA nanoparticles in chinchilla cochleaeXianxi Ge
Spatial Orientation Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA 92134 5000, USA
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 137:619-23. 2007..To study the distribution of polylactic/glycolic acid-encapsulated iron oxide nanoparticles (PLGA-NPs) in chinchilla cochleae after application on the round window membrane (RWM)...
Noise protection with N-acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC) using a variety of noise exposures, NAC doses, and routes of administrationEric C Bielefeld
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Acta Otolaryngol 127:914-9. 2007..The studies further reveal the potential for the use of NAC in a clinical population exposed to noise...
Magnetic nanoparticles: inner ear targeted molecule delivery and middle ear implantRichard D Kopke
Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, OK 73112, USA
Audiol Neurootol 11:123-33. 2006..A sinusoidal magnetic field applied to guinea pigs with SNP implanted in the middle ear resulted in displacements of the middle ear comparable to 90 dB SPL...
The early kinetics of gentamicin uptake into the inner earMichael E Hoffer
Department of Defense Spatial Orientation Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA 92134 2200, USA
Int Tinnitus J 8:27-9. 2002..The information gained from this study may increase our scientific understanding about the effects of gentamicin on the inner ear and may allow clinicians to treat patients more effectively for inner-ear disorders...
Transtympanic management of tinnitusMichael E Hoffer
Department of Defense Spatial Orientation Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA 92134 2200, USA
Otolaryngol Clin North Am 36:353-8. 2003..Ideally in the future with knowledge of the disease and its etiology the physician will simply pick the established medicine, the established dose, and the established route of administration and achieve a relatively predictable result...
Vestibular testing abnormalities in individuals with motion sicknessMichael E Hoffer
Department of Defense, Spatial Orientation Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA 92134 2200, USA
Otol Neurotol 24:633-6. 2003..The goal of this study was to compare the results of vestibular testing in individuals with motion sickness to a group of control subjects...
Effectiveness of 4-hydroxy phenyl N-tert-butylnitrone (4-OHPBN) alone and in combination with other antioxidant drugs in the treatment of acute acoustic trauma in chinchillaChul Hee Choi
Hough Ear Institute, Oklahoma City, OK 73112, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 44:1772-84. 2008..These results demonstrate that 4-OHPBN and combinations of antioxidants can effectively treat acute acoustic trauma and drug combinations may increase the effectiveness of treatment and decrease the required individual medication dose...
Effect of trans-bullar gentamicin treatment on guinea pig angular and linear vestibulo-ocular reflexesGavin E G Jones
Department of Defense Spatial Orientation Center, Otolaryngology Department, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, 34800 Bob Wilson Dr. Ste 200, CA 92134, San Diego, USA
Exp Brain Res 152:293-306. 2003..It is suggested that these effects indicate selective cytotoxic and/or physiologic effects of gentamicin intoxication in the inner ear or, possibly, the vestibular nerve and central nervous system...
NAC for noise: from the bench top to the clinicRichard D Kopke
Hough Ear Institute, 3400 N W 56th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73112, USA
Hear Res 226:114-25. 2007..Early clinical trials with NAC are mentioned...
