The sensory and motor roles of auditory hair cells

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-29

  Fettiplace, Robert ^a   Hackney, Carole M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; ADAPTATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHANNEL GATING; COCHLEA; CORTI ORGAN; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HAIR CELL; HEARING LOSS; MAMMAL; MECHANICS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOUND;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CELL MOVEMENT; HAIR CELLS; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 29244448344     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1828     Document Type: Review

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