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White coat colour and deafness have an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance in the cat1,2, the hearing loss being due to an early, post-natal degeneration of the cochlear end-organ2,3. The neurons of the primary cochlear nuclei from affected animals have been shown to be smaller than in hearing cats4,5, this being a consequence either of a transneuronal degeneration or a failure of development. Approximately 25% of white coat cats with deafness have only unilateral inner ear affection5. These animals therefore constitute a useful, spontaneously occurring animal model for the study of auditory pathway function in unilateral deafness.
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Mair, I.W.S., Laukli, E., Elverland, H.H. (1980). Early auditory evoked responses of the cat. In: Barber, C. (eds) Evoked Potentials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6645-4_33
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