Piezoelectric materials mimic the function of the cochlear sensory epithelium

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

Volumn 108, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 18390-18395

  Inaoka, Takatoshi ^a   Shintaku, Hirofumi ^b   Nakagawa, Takayuki ^a   Kawano, Satoyuki ^b   Ogita, Hideaki ^a   Sakamoto, Tatsunori ^a   Hamanishi, Shinji ^c   Wada, Hiroshi ^d   Ito, Juichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Hearing loss; Mechanoelectrical transduction; Regeneration; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

ETACRYNIC ACID; KANAMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FEMALE; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; MIDDLE EAR; NERVE CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; ELECTRONICS; ETHACRYNIC ACID; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; KANAMYCIN;

CAVIA;

EID: 81055130106     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1110036108     Document Type: Article

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