Vibration responses of the organ of Corti and the tectorial membrane to electrical stimulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3852-3872

  Nowotny, Manuela ^a,b   Gummer, Anthony W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTROMECHANICAL FORCES; FREQUENCY RANGES; GUINEA PIGS; IN-PHASE; IN-VITRO; INNER HAIR CELLS; ORGAN OF CORTI; OUTER HAIR CELL; PHASE RELATION; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; RADIAL DIRECTION; RESPONSE AMPLITUDES; SOUND PROCESSING; STIMULUS FREQUENCY; TECTORIAL MEMBRANES; TRANSVERSE MOTIONS; TRANSVERSE VIBRATIONS; TRAVELING WAVE; VIBRATION RESPONSE;

CYTOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS;

CELLS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COCHLEA DUCT; CORTI ORGAN; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; STEREOCILIUM; VIBRATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GUINEA PIGS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; ORGAN OF CORTI; SOUND; STEREOCILIA; TECTORIAL MEMBRANE; VIBRATION;

EID: 84858321905     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3651822     Document Type: Article

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