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Sharpened cochlear tuning in a mouse with a genetically modified tectorial membrane.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Feb 2007
Russell Ian J, Legan P Kevin, Lukashkina Victoria A, Lukashkin Andrei N, Goodyear Richard J, Richardson Guy P
Abstract excerpt
Frequency tuning in the cochlea is determined by the passive mechanical properties of the basilar membrane and active feedback from the outer hair cells, sensory-effector cells that detect and amplify sound-induced basilar membrane motions. The sensory hair bundles of the outer hair cells are imbedded in the tectorial membrane, a sheet of extracellular matrix that overlies the cochlea's sensory epithelium. The...
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