Type | MGI:General | Description | at 13 months of age, both homozygotes and wild-type mice display significantly fewer eighth nerve fibers than 2-month-old wild-type mice, with significantly greater loss in aged homozygotes than in aged wild-type mice similar to hair cell loss, eighth nerve fibers in the basal half are more vulnerable to aging and ROS-mediated damage than fibers in the apical half |