How is the highly positive endocochlear potential formed? the specific architecture of the stria vascularis and the roles of the ion-transport apparatus

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 459, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 521-533

  Hibino, Hiroshi ^a   Nin, Fumiaki ^a,b   Tsuzuki, Chizuru ^a   Kurachi, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Electrophysiology potassium transport; Epithelium potential

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CHLORIDE ION; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR4.1; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOXIA; APICAL MEMBRANE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; COCHLEA; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; CORTI ORGAN; DIFFUSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOLYMPH; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HUMAN; ION TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PERILYMPH; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SOUND; STEREOCILIUM; STRIA VASCULARIS; SYNCYTIUM; TIGHT JUNCTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VESTIBULE;

ANIMALS; COCHLEA; ENDOLYMPH; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; STRIA VASCULARIS;

EID: 77950933650     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: 14322013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-009-0754-z     Document Type: Review

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