Prestin-Driven Cochlear Amplification Is Not Limited by the Outer Hair Cell Membrane Time Constant

Neuron

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1143-1154

  Johnson, Stuart L ^a   Beurg, Maryline ^b   Marcotti, Walter ^a   Fettiplace, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM ION; PRESTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; COCHLEA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOLYMPH; GERBIL; HAIR CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OUTER HAIR CELL; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND; TIME; TIME CONSTANT;

ANIMALS; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CALCIUM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GERBILLINAE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HEARING; ION CHANNEL GATING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; ORGAN OF CORTI; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959306372     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.024     Document Type: Article

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