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Prestin-based outer hair cell electromotility in knockin mice does not appear to adjust the operating point of a cilia-based amplifier.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Jul 2007
Gao Jiangang, Wang Xiang, Wu Xudong, Aguinaga Sal, Huynh Kristin, Jia Shuping, Matsuda Keiji, Patel Manish, Zheng Jing, Cheatham Maryann, He David Z, Dallos Peter, Zuo Jian
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The remarkable sensitivity and frequency selectivity of the mammalian cochlea is attributed to a unique amplification process that resides in outer hair cells (OHCs). Although the mammalian-specific somatic motility is considered a substrate of cochlear amplification, it has also been proposed th...
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