Prestin in Human Perilymph, Cerebrospinal Fluid, and Blood as a Biomarker for Hearing Loss.
Gadenstaetter Anselm Joseph, Krumpoeck Paul Emmerich, Auinger Alice Barbara, +5 more·Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
OBJECTIVE: Determining the concentration of prestin in human blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and perilymph (PL), and evaluating its suitability as a clinical biomarker for sensori-neural hearing loss (SNHL). STUDY DESIGN: Human blood, CSF, and PL samples were intraoperatively collected from 42 patients with tumors o…