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  • Title: Reducing noise damage by using a mid-frequency sound conditioning stimulus.
    Author: Canlon B, Fransson A.
    Journal: Neuroreport; 1998 Jan 26; 9(2):269-74. PubMed ID: 9507967.
    Abstract:
    Sound conditioning guinea pigs to a 6.3 kHz tone at 78 dB SPL for either 13 or 24 days provides significant physiological (auditory brain stem responses, ABR; and distortion product otoacoustic emissions, DPOAE) and morphological (cochleograms) protection against a subsequent traumatic exposure (6.3 kHz, 100 dB SPL for 24 h) delivered 2 h after sound conditioning. Threshold shifts (ABR, DPOAE) were significantly reduced and the degree of hair cell loss was minimal. When a 1 week pause was given between the end of the sound conditioning and the traumatic exposure, protection was still observed, but to a lesser degree. These findings demonstrate that mid-frequency sound conditioning protects against noise trauma and that the protective effect is maintained for at least 1 week.
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