Mechanism Of Cochlear Excitation At Low Intensities

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 81-100

  Sichel, Jean Yves ^a   Perez, Ronen ^b   Freeman, Sharon ^c   Sohmer, Haim ^c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

basilar membrane; fluid pressures; outer hair cells; round window; stapes footplate; traveling wave

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BODY FLUID; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXCITATION; GEL; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; STAPES; TUBE; ULTRASOUND; VIBRATION; VISCOSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; GUINEA PIGS; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; LABYRINTHINE FLUIDS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; VIBRATION;

EID: 27644575584     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2005.16.2-3.81     Document Type: Article

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