Enhancement of sensitivity gain and frequency tuning by coupling of active hair bundles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 18669-18674

  Dierkes, Kai ^a   Lindner, Benjamin ^a   Jülicher, Frank ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory amplifier; Hair cells; Nonlinear oscillators; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BULLFROG; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAIR; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SACCULUS; SOUND INTENSITY; TUNING CURVE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANA CATESBEIANA; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

MAMMALIA; RANA CATESBEIANA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57749094257     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805752105     Document Type: Article

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