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A Gap-Junction Mutation Reveals That Outer Hair Cell Extracellular Receptor Potentials Drive High-Frequency Cochlear Amplification.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 19 Oct 2022
Levic Snezana, Lukashkina Victoria A, Simões Patricio, Lukashkin Andrei N, Russell Ian J
Abstract excerpt
Cochlear amplification enables the enormous dynamic range of hearing through amplifying cochlear responses to low- to moderate-level sounds and compressing them to loud sounds. Amplification is attributed to voltage-dependent electromotility of mechanosensory outer hair cells (OHCs) driven by changing voltages developed across their cell membranes. At low frequencies, these voltage changes are dominated by...
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