title: Acute effects of electrical intracochlear multichannel high-rate stimulation of the auditory nerve of cats.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the short-term effects of electrical stimulation of the cochlea in cats.
  
  
  METHODS
  Deafened cats were implanted with human cochlear electrodes, electrical stimulation at clinical levels was given, and evoked auditory brain stem responses (EABR) were recorded.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  No long-term reduction in the excitability of the auditory nerve or in brain stem responses was seen.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Otology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Cords
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reuter
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lenarz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003638:Deafness / Q000601:surgery*; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000295:instrumentation; D004867:Equipment Design; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D000159:Vestibulocochlear Nerve