Optimal Electrical Properties of Outer Hair Cells Ensure Cochlear Amplification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Nam, Jong Hoon ^a,b   Fettiplace, Robert ^c  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; GERBIL; HAIR CELL; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; SIMULATION; SOUND INTENSITY; VIBRATION;

ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GERBILLINAE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGAN OF CORTI;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84870256608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050572     Document Type: Article

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