... and immunostaining using anti-neurofilament and anti-myelin protein zero antibodies confirmed that the principal histopathologic correlate of hearing loss was degeneration of the dendritic fibers of spiral ganglion cells in the osseous spiral lamina. The implications for cochlear implantation in this disorder...

...Jennifer T. O’Malley; Saumil N. Merchant; Barbara J. Burgess; Diane D. Jones; Joe C. Adams The localization of proteins by immunostaining is a powerful method to investigate otologic disorders. However, the use of fixatives and embedding media (necessary for the preservation of morphology) can...