Somatic motility and hair bundle mechanics, are both necessary for cochlear amplification?

Hearing Research

Volumn 273, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 109-122

  Peng, Anthony W ^a   Ricci, Anthony J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; COCHLEA; EFFERENT NERVE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; NONHUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECIES COMPARISON; TONOTOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MOVEMENT; COCHLEA; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HEARING; INVERTEBRATES; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 79952900318     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.03.094     Document Type: Article

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