TY - BOOK AU - Mona Mohamed Hamdy Abdelrahman AU - Maged Bahgat Amr Bahgat , AU - Mohamed Ibrahim Shabana , AU - Mostafa Elkhousht , TI - Mitochondrial sensorineural hearing loss / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mona Mohamed Hamdy Abdelrahman , KW - Mitochondria KW - mtDNA mutation KW - Sensorineural hearing loss N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of E.N.T; Issued also as CD N2 - Humar ear is a delicate sensory apparatus of hearing for normal communication and its proper functioning is highly dependent on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. The cochlea is very sensitive to mitochondrial dysfuntions because its function is highly energy-dependent.Normal hearing is dependent upon the function of hair cells and the stria vascularis UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -