Hair cells use active zones with different voltage dependence of Ca2+ influx to decompose sounds into complementary neural codes

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

Volumn 113, Issue 32, 2016, Pages E4716-E4725

  Ohna, Tzu Lun ^a,b   Rutherford, Mark A ^a,c   Jing, Zhizi ^a,b   Jung, Sangyong ^a,b,d   Duque Afonso, Carlos J ^a,b   Hoch, Gerhard ^a   Picher, Maria Magdalena ^a,b   Scharinger, Anja ^e,f   Strenzke, Nicola ^a,b   Moser, Tobias ^a,b,d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^g BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory system|spiral ganglion neuron; Dynamic range; Presynaptic heterogeneity; Synaptic strength

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM; GIPC3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPOLARIZATION; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE; GIPC3 GENE; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNER HAIR CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPIRAL GANGLION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SOUND; SPIRAL GANGLION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84982890737     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605737113     Document Type: Article

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