Article
The Dynamic Strength of the Hair-Cell Tip Link Reveals Mechanisms of Hearing and Deafness
2019-09-12
Abstract excerpt
Our senses of hearing and balance rely on the extraordinarily sensitive molecular machinery of the inner ear to convert deflections as small as the width of a single carbon atom 1,2 into electrical signals that the brain can process 3 . In humans and other vertebrates, transduction is mediated by hair cells 4 , where tension on tip links conveys force to mechanosensitive ion channels 5 . Each tip link comprise...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9507e0da-8f3c-535c-b8ae-1f76e745651f
- DOI
- 10.1101/763847