Bibliography of Publications Related to Deafness in Cats

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This listing should be considered a work in progress. See also Bibliography of Publications Related to Deafness in Dogs.

• Achor LJ & Starr A. 1980. Auditory brain stem responses in the cat. I. Intracranial and extracranial recordings. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 48:154-173.
• Achor LJ & Starr A. 1980. Auditory brain stem responses in the cat. II. Effects of lesions. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 48:174-190.
• Bach LH, Cooper MP, Fretwell N, Lyons LA. 2006. Sequence analysis of KIT as a candidate gene for white spotting in cats. Third International Conference on Advances in Canine and Feline Genomics, Davis, CA, Aug 2006. To be published in a future issue of the Journal of Heredity.
• Bamber RC. 1933. Correlatioin between white coat colour, blue eyes and deafness in cats. Journal of Genetics 27:407-413.
• Bergsma DR & Brown KS. 1971. White fur, blue eyes, and deafness in the domestic cat. Journal of Heredity 62:171-185.
• Bosher SK & Hallpike CS. 1965. Observations of the histological features, development and pathogenesis of the inner ear degeneration of the deaf white cat. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 162:147-170.
• Bosher SK & Hallpike CS. 1967. Observations on the histogenesis of the inner ear degeneration of the deaf white cat and its possible relationship to the aetiology of certain unexplained varieties of human congenital deafness. Journal of Laryngol 80:222-235.
• Brighton P, Ramesar R, & Winship I. 1991. Hearing impairment and pigmentary disturbance. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 630:152-166.
• Brown KS, Bergsma DR, & Barrow MV. 1971. Animal models of pigment and hearing abnormalities in man. Birth Defects Original Article Series 7:102-109.
• Buchwald JS, Huang C. 1975. Far-field acoustic response: origins in the cat. Science 189:382-384.
• Buchwald JS & Shipley C. 1986. Development of auditory evoked potentials in the kitten. In: Advances in Neural and Behavioral Development, Vol. 2. ed. Aslin RN pp 95-118. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
• Cohen MS & Britt RH. 1982. Effects of sodium pentobarbital, ketamine, halothane, and chloralose on brainstem auditory evoked responses. Anesthesia and Analgesia 61:338-343.
• Conlee JW, Parks TN, Romero C, & Creel D. 1984. Auditory brainstem anomalies in albino cats. I. Neuronal atrophy in the superior olive. Journal of Comparative Neurology 222:141-148.
• Conlee JW, Parks TN, Schwartz IR, & Creel DJ. 1989. Comparative anatomy of melanin pigment in the stria vascularis. Evidence for a distinction between melanocytes and intermediate cells in the cat. Acta Otolaryngol 107:48-58.
• Creel D, Conlee JW, & Parks TN. 1983. Auditory brainstem anomalies in albino cats. I. Evoked potential studies. Brain Research 260:1-9.
• Cvejic D, Steinberg TA, Kent MS, Fischer A. 2009. Unilateral and bilateral congenital sensorineural deafness in client-owned pure-breed white cats. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 23:392-395.
• Delack, J.B. 1984. Hereditary deafness in the white cat. Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian 6:609-619.
• Deol MS. 1970. The relationship between abnormalities of pigmentation and of the inner ear. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 175:201-217.
• Eizirik E, Yuhki N, Johnson WE, Menotti-Raymond M, Hannah SS, & O'brien SJ. 2003. Molecular genetics and evolution of melanism in the cat family. Current Biology 13:448-453.
• Elverland HH & Mair IW. 1980. Hereditary deafness in the cat. An electron microscopic study of the spiral ganglion. Acta Otolaryngol 90:360-369.
• Foley CW et al. 1979. Abnormalities of Companion Animals. Ames IA:Iowa State University Press.
• Fullerton BC, Levine RA, Hosford-Dunn HL, & Kiang NYS. 1987. Comparison of cat and human brain-stem auditory evoked potentials. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 66:547-570.
• Geigy CA, Heid S, Steffen F, Danielson K, Jaggy A, & Gaillard C. 2006. Does a pleiotropic gnen explain deafness and blue irises in white cats? The Veterinary Journal (in press).
• Gookin JL, Riviere JE, Gilger BC, & Papich MG. Acute renal failure in four cats treated with paromomycin. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 215:1821-1823.
• Hardie, NA & Shepherd RK. 1999. Sensorineural hearing loss during development: morphological and physiological response of the cochlea and auditory brainstem. Hearing Research 128:147-165.
• Harrison J & Buchwald J. 1982. Auditory brainstem responses in the aged cat. Neurobiology of Aging 3:163-171.
• Heid S, Jahn-Siebert TK, Klinke R, Hartmann R, & Langner G. 1997. Afferent projection patterns in the auditory brainstem in normal and congenitally deaf white cats. Hearing Research 110:191-199.
• Heid S, Hartmann R, & Klinke R. 1998. A model for prelingual deafness, the congentially deaf white cat -- population statistics and degenerative changes. Hearing Research 115:101-112.
• Jewett DL. 1970. Volume conducted potentials in response to auditory stimuli as detected by averaging in the cat. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 28:609-618.
• Mair, I.W.S. 1973. Hereditary deafness in the white cat. Acta Otolaryngologica Suppl 314:1-48.
• Mair IW & Elverland HH. 1977. Hereditary deafness in the cat. An electron microscopic study of the stria vascularis and Reissner's membrane. Archives of Otorhinolaryngology 217:199-217.
• Mansfield, P.D. 1990. Ototoxicity in dogs and cats. Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian 12:331-337.
• Menotti-Raymond M, David VA, Lyons LA, et al. 1999. A genetic linkage map of microsatelliites in the domestic cat (Felis catus). Genomics 57:9-23.
• Mickey BJ & Middlebrooks JC. 2003. Representation of auditory space by cortical neurons in awake cats. Journal of Neuroscience 23:8649-8663.
• Møller AR. 1998. Neural generators of the brainstem auditory evoked potentials. Seminars in Hearing 19:11-27.
• Olmstead CE & Villablanca JR. 1980. Development of behavioral audition in the kitten. Physiology and Behavior 24:705-712.
• Pedersen EK, Mair IW, & Elverland HH. 1980. Hereditary deafness in the cat: an electron-microscopic study of the tectorial membrane. Archives of Otorhinolaryngology 229:55-68.
• Pickrell, J.A., Oehme, F.W., & Cash, W.C. 1993. Ototoxicity in dogs and cats. Seminars in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Small Animal) 8:42-49.
• Pielberg G, Olsson C, Syvanen A-C, & Andersson L. 2002. Unexpectedly high allelic diversity at the KIT locus causing dominant white color in the domestic pig. Genetics 160:305-311.
• Powell TPS & Erulkar SD. 1962. Transneuronal cell degeneration in the auditory relay nuclei of the cat. Journal of Anatomy 96:219-268.
• Pujol R & Hilding D. 1973. Anatomy and physiology of the onset of auditory function. Acta Otolaryngol 76:1-10.
• Pujol R, Rebillard M, & Rebillard G. 1977. Primary neural disorders in the deaf white cat cochlea. Acta Otolaryngol 83:59-64.
• Rebillard G, Rebillard M, Carlier E, & Pujol R. 1976. Histo-physiological relationships in the deaf white cat auditory system. Acta Otolaryngol 82:48-56.
• Rebillard M, Rebillard G, & Pujol R. 1981. Variability in the hereditary deafness in the white cat. I. Physiology. Hearing Research 5:179-187.
• Rebillard M, Pujol R, & Rebillard G. 1981. Variability in the hereditary deafness in the white cat. II. Histology. Hearing Research 5:189-200.
• Redd EE, Pongstaporn T, & Ryugo DK. 2000. The effects of congenital deafness on auditory nerve synapses and globular bushy cells in cats. Hearing Research 147:160-174.
• Redd EE, Cahill HB, Pongstaporn T, & Ryugo DK. 2002. The effects of congenital deafness on auditory nerve synapses: Type I and Type II multipolar cells in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus of cats. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology 3:403-417.
• Romand R. 1984. Functional properties of auditory-nerve fibers during postnatal development in the kitten. Experimental Brain Research 56:395-402.
• Romand R, Romand MR, Mulle C, & Marty R. 1980. Early stages of myelination in the spiral ganglion cells of the kitten during development. Acta Otolaryngol 90:391-397.
• Rubel EW. 1984. Ontogeny of auditory system function. Annual Review of Physiology 46:213-229.
• Rubel EW & Fritzsch B. 2002. Auditory system development: primary auditory neurons and their targets. Annual Review of Neuroscience 25:51-101.
• Ryugo DK, Rosenbaum BT, Kim PJ, Niparko JK, & Saada AA. 1998. Single unit recordings in the auditory nerve of congenitally deaf white cats: morphological correlates in the cochlea and cochlear nucleus. Journal of Comparative Neurology 397:532-548.
• Ryugo DK, Cahill HB, Rose LS, Rosenbaum BT, Schroeder ME, & Wright AL. 2003. Separate forms of pathology in the cochlea of congenitally deaf white cats. Hearing Research 181:73-84.
• Ryugo DK, Kretzmer EA, & Niparko JK. 2005. Restoration of auditory nerve synapses in cats by cochlear implants. Science 310:1490-1492.
• Saada AA, Niparko JK, & Ryugo DK. 1996. Morphological changes in the cochlear nucleus of congenitally deaf white cats. Brain Research 736:315-328.
• Sage C, Huang M, Karimi K, Gutierrez G, Vollrath MA, Zhang DS, Garcia-Anoveros J, Hinds PW, Corwin JT, Corey DP, Chen ZY. 2005. Science 307(5712):1114-8.
• Scheibe A. 1892. A case of deaf-mutism, with auditory atrophy and anomalies of development in the membranous labyrinth of both ears. Archives of Otolaryngology 21:12-22.
• Schuknecht, H.F. 1955. Presbycusis. Laryngoscope 65:402-419.
• Schuknecht, H.F. & Gacek, M.R. 1993. Cochlear pathology in presbycusis. Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology 102:1-16.
• Schwartz IR & Higa JF. 1982. Correlated studies of the ear and brainstem in the deaf white cat: changes in the spiral ganglion and the medial superior olivary nucleus. Acta Otolaryngol 93:9-18.
• Searle, A.G. 1968. Comparative genetics of coat colour in mammals. London: Logos Press.
• Shepherd RK & Martin RL. 1995. Onset of ototoxicity in the cat is related to onset of auditory function. Hearing Research 92:131-142.
• Shipley C, Buchwald JS, & Carterette EC. 1988. The role of auditory feedback in the vocalization of cats. Experimental Brain Research 69:431-438.
• Sims, M.H. 1988. Electrodiagnostic evaluation of auditory function. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice 18:913-944.
• Sims MH & Horohov JE. 1986. Effects of xylazine and ketamine on the acoustic reflex and brain stem auditory-evoked response in the cat. American Journal of Veterinary Research 47:102-109.
• Starr A & Zaaroor M. 1990. Eighth nerve contributions to cat auditory brainstem responses (ABR). Hearing Research 48:151-160.
• Strain GM. 1991. Congenital deafness in dogs and cats. Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian 13:245-253.
• Strain GM. 1996. Aetiology, prevalence, and diagnosis of deafness in dogs and cats. British Veterinary Journal 152:17-36.
• Strain GM, Tedford BL, Littlefield-Chabaud MA, et al. 1998. Air- and bone-conducted brainstem auditory evoked potentials and flash visual evoked potentials in cats. American Journal of Veterinary Research 59:135-137.
• Suga, F. & Hattler, K.W. 1970. Physiological and histopathological correlates of hereditary deafness in animals. Laryngoscope 80, 81-104.
• Tvete O & Haugsten P. 1981. Auditory brain stem responses (ABR) in cat. Latency as a function of stimulus polarity, intensity and acoustic waveform. Scandinavian Audiology Suppl. 13:35-38.
• Villablanca JR & Olmstead CE. 1979. Neurological development in kittens. Dev Psychobiology 12:101-127.
• Vollmer M, Beitel RE, & Snyder RL. 2001. Auditory detection and discrimination in deaf cats: psychophysical and neural thresholds for intracochlear electrical signals. Journal of Neurophysiology 86:2330-2343.
• Walsh EJ & McGee J. 1987. Postnatal development of auditory nerve and cochlear nucleus neuronal responses in kittens. Hearing Research 28:97-116.
• Walsh EJ, McGee J, & Javel E. 1986. Development of auditory-evoked potentials in the cat. I. Onset of response and development of sensitivity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 79:712-724.
• Walsh EJ, Gorga M, & McGee J. 1992. Comparisons of the development of auditory brainstem response latencies between cats and humans. Hearing Research 60:53-63.
• Wilson TG & Kane F. 1959. Congenital deafness in white cats. Acta Otolaryngol 50:269-277.
• Wolff D. 1942. Three generations of deaf white cats. Journal of Heredity 33:39-43.
• Zaaroor M & Starr A. 1991. Auditory brain-stem evoked potentials in cat after kainic acid induced neuronal loss. I. Superior olivary complex. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 80:422-435.
• Zaaroor M & Starr A. 1991. Auditory brain-stem evoked potentials in cat after kainic acid induced neuronal loss. II. Cochlear nucleus. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 80:436-445.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) References:

• 600965 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=600965
• 220290 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=220290
• 607841 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=607841
• 601071 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=601071

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