TY - CHAP
TI - Auditory Effects of Underwater Noise in Odontocetes
AU - Finneran, J
T2 -  Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology: The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life
AB - A common result of noise exposure is a noise-induced threshold shift, defined as an increase in auditory threshold that persists after cessation of a noise exposure. If the hearing threshold returns to normal after some period of time, the threshold shift is called a temporary threshold shift (TTS). If the threshold does not return to normal, the remaining amount of threshold shift is called a permanent threshold shift (PTS). Observed PTS/TTS may be the result of a variety of mechanical and biochemical processes, including physical damage or distortion of the tympanic membrane and cochlear hair cell stereocilia, oxidative stress-related hair cell death, changes in cochlear blood flow, and swelling of cochlear nerve terminals resulting from glutamate excitotoxicity (Henderson et al. 2006; Kujawa and Liberman 2009). Although the outer hair cells are the most prominent target for noise effects, severe noise exposures may also result in inner hair cell death and loss of auditory nerve fibers (Henderson et al. 2006).This is a chapter in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology: The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life.
CY - New York, New York
DA - 2012/01//
PY - 2012
ET - 730
VL - 730
SP - 197
EP - 202
PB - Springer New York
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-7311-5_44
U1 - US Navy Marine Mammal Program
LA - English
KW - Noise
KW - Marine Mammals
ER -