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Nature Medicine  2, 1313 - 1314 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm1296-1313

Aminoglycoside excitement silences hearing

Patrik Ernfors1 & Barbara Canlon2

  1Departments of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

  2Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

NMDA receptor antagonists attenuate hearing loss induced by the excitotoxic action of aminoglycoside antibiotics (page 1338−1343).

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