Fast cochlear amplification with slow outer hair cells

Hearing Research

Volumn 214, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 45-67

  Lu, Timothy K ^a,b   Zhak, Serhii ^a   Dallos, Peter ^c   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear amplifier; Electromotility; Membrane time constant low pass filtering; Negative feedback; Outer hair cell; Receptor potential

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CORTI ORGAN; DYNAMICS; HAIR CELL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; TIME; ANIMAL; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL MOTION; COCHLEA DUCT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; TECTORIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 33745319371     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.01.018     Document Type: Article

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