Susceptibility to impulse noise trauma in different species: guinea pig, rat and mouse.
CONCLUSIONS
The results indicate that susceptibility to impulse noise differs in the three species.


OBJECTIVE
To test the hypothesis that there is different susceptibility to impulse noise trauma in three species: the guinea pig, rat and mouse.


METHODS
Three groups of animals were exposed to the same impulse noise and the effect on cochlear pathology was examined using auditory brainstem response thresholds.


RESULTS
It was found that the rat and mouse are more sensitive to impulse noise than the guinea pig.
Duan
Maoli
M
Center for Hearing and Communication Research, Stockholm, Sweden. maoli.duan@ki.se
Laurell
Goran
G
Qiu
Jianxin
J
Borg
Erik
E
D000818:Animals; D001305:Auditory Fatigue / Q000502:physiology; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology*; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000503:physiopathology*; D051379:Mice; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013045:Species Specificity