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Abstract
Physiological consequences of neonatal cochlear ablation were assessed in the inferior colliculus of adult gerbils subjected at 2 days of age to ablation of one cochlea. Responses to tonal stimulation of the unoperated ear were evaluated at 100 microns intervals in the ipsilateral inferior colliculus. Compared with excitatory responses to ipsilateral stimulation in the inferior colliculus of unoperated animals, responses recorded in experimental animals are more widespread, stronger and occur at lower thresholds. The ubiquity of excitatory responses to ipsilateral stimulation in neonatally ablated animals indicates that responses to ipsilateral stimulation in normal gerbils are partly dependent upon interactions during development between pathways conveying information from each ear.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6466971 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(84)90366-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Res ISSN: 0006-8993 Impact factor: 3.252