“…Although cisplatin is one of the most potent OHC toxins known [Anniko and Sobin, 1986], it may also cause hearing loss by affecting other inner ear structures, such as the stria vascularis [Nakai et al, 1982;Tange and Vuzevski, 1984;Kohn et al, 1988;Saito and Aran, 1994;Watanabe et al, 2002]. Indeed, a major decrease in the endocochlear potential (EP), implying stria vascularis dysfunction, has been observed early after the occurrence of cisplatin-induced threshold shifts [Klis et al, 2000[Klis et al, , 2002Tsukasaki et al, 2000].…”