1. Cochleas from persons suffering from presbycusis display pathologies of the stria vascularis as well as anomalies in cochlear microcirculation that parallel the age-related pathologies investigated in …

2. Cochleas from persons suffering from presbycusis display pathologies of the stria vascularis as well as anomalies in cochlear microcirculation that parallel the age-related pathologies investigated in gerbils and other mammals

3. The tinnitus to be prevented and/or treated may be provoked by acoustic trauma, presbycusis, ischemia, anoxia, treatment with one or more ototoxic medications, sudden deafness, or other cochlear excitotoxic-inducing occurrence.