To prevent hearing damage during cancer treatment, a University of Oklahoma researcher created a novel drug delivery system ...

Most acoustic neuromas begin in the vestibular nerve, which helps you keep your balance. Tumor growth leads to hearing loss and balance disorders. Some acoustic neuromas begin in the cochlear nerve, ...

In order to reduce these reflections and maximize the transfer of sound energy from the air filled environment to the fluid filled inner ear, land animals evolved external ears as sound collectors and ...

If you have a cat at home, you’ve probably admired their agility — how they jump, run, pounce, and take off at the speed of light! So what happens if you notice a change — your cat is leaning toward ...

Our lab uses the inner ear as a model system to address fundamental questions in developmental biology and regeneration. The transformation of a simple piece of epithelium - the otic placode - into a ...

which Saphier described as benign brain tumors "arising from the nerves involving the inner ear." "At this time, there is no direct link identified between cell phone usage and brain tumor development ...

Use of the chinchilla as a model of middle ear infection in auditory research necessitates accessing the middle ear to collect samples or inoculate bacteria. This column describes a simple ...

Given the widespread use of cellphones, Ahluwalia said, even the slightest risk of cancer would be concerning ... affects the nerve that connects the inner ear to the brain, according to the ...

This big thing on the side of the head is called the outer ear. It’s shaped a bit like a funnel, which helps it collect sound waves and send them down into the middle ear. Now then, who’s ...

Figure 1: Expression patterns of the integrin α8 protein in the inner ear at E16 and P0. Figure 2: Utricular hair cells in mutant mice show stereocilia defects at P0 and E18. Figure 5 ...

Keep tabs on 32 of the illnesses that typically affect rabbits, so that you can spot the early signs and seek potentially ...