Biomarkers for Hearing Dysfunction: Facts and Outlook.

Biomarkers for Hearing Dysfunction: Facts and Outlook.

ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec. 2017 Feb 24;79(1-2):93-111

Authors: Rüttiger L, Zimmermann U, Knipper M

Abstract
In medicine, biomarkers are a metric for disease state. More generally, a biomarker is anything that can be used as an indicator for a particular disease state or any physiological state of an organism. Here, we introduce functional and molecular biomarkers that are useful for categorizing defined subtypes of hearing disorder, which can help to selectively trace a particular dysfunction of the inner ear and the auditory pathway to disease.

PMID: 28231578 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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