The mammalian cochlea contains two classes of hair cell, inner and outer, with distinct functions ().Information about the acoustic environment — speech, music or other sounds in the outside ...

The loss of tiny cells in the inner ear, known as "hair cells," is a leading cause of hearing loss, a public health problem affecting at least one out of three people over the age of 65. Of the ...

The cochlea (which is responsible for hearing), the vestibule and the three semi-circular canals (both responsible for balance perception) are located in the inner ear. Outer hair cells are ...

Scanning electron microscope image of the hair bundles of inner and outer hair cells from the mouse cochlea. The white filaments are the individual hairs of the bundles, which are connected by tip ...

Cochlear cells perform a courtly dance during hearing. Outer hair cells (dressed in blue) jump and crouch while inner hair cells (in fucshia) swing in response.

Red fluorescent proteins (tdTomato), in other words Nox3, are expressed in the outer and inner hair cells, as well as in various types of supporting cells (inner and outer phalangeal cells, outer ...

Representative inner and outer hair cells stained with rhodamine-phalloidin and Hoechst 33342 seen seven days following transient cochlear ischemia/reperfusion in the Ad-LacZ group.

As mammals, we have very sensitive hearing, thanks to a process known as cochlear amplification. This amplification is down to sensory cells in the inner ear called outer hair cells (OHCs), and it ...

Hearing depends on the proper function of the organ of Corti, a structure in the cochlea that houses around 15,000 inner and outer hair cells. These cells convert sound vibrations into electrical ...

Hearing aids and, in severe cases, cochlear implants can be helpful for many people, but neither address the underlying cause: the loss of hair cells in the inner ear.

But scientists now have discovered a single master gene that programs ear hair cells into either outer or inner ones, ... The ATOH1 and GF1 genes are needed to make a cochlear hair cell from a non ...

Scientists have coaxed sound-sensing cells in the ear, called "hair cells," to grow from stem cells. This technique, if perfected with human cells, could help halt or reverse the most common form ...