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 ...

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 ...

[2] Prestin-Driven Cochlear Amplification Is Not Limited by the Outer Hair Cell Membrane Time Constant. Neuron (2011). [3] Evolving critical oscillators for hearing .

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 ...

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 ...

From these results, they determined that Nox3-expressing (i.e. superoxide producing) outer hair cells are poisoned by superoxide and die (apoptosis).

Innovative oscillator models have delineated the evolutionary optimisation of hair cell function, providing a fresh perspective on the delicate equilibrium between active and passive forces in ...