Peripheral Auditory Flashcards
Low-frequency cochlea has broad tuning with non-linear amplification
Recio-Spinoso and Oghalai, 2018
Cochlear amplification/tuning depend on Organ of Corti arrangement
Soons et al, 2018
Vibration hotspots reveal lungitudinal funnelling of sound-evokes motion in mammalian cochlea
Cooper et al, 2018
Mammalian behaviour and physiology converge to confirm sharper cochlea tuning in humans
Sumner et al, 2018
Muscarinic agonists and ATP increase intracellular Ca2+ concentration in chick cochlear hair cells, mediating efferent innervation
Shigemoto and Ohmori, 1990
Calcium capacitor shapes cholinergic inhibition of cochlear hair cells
Fuchs, 2014
Cytoskeleton/ECM may focus force on MET channel
Fettiplace et al, 2014
Heterogeneity of MET channel across taxa = difficult to isolate via homology
Fettiplace et al, 2014
Current step elicits dampened oscillation in membrane potential superimposed on step
Crawford and Fettiplace, 1981
Force generatiob by mammalian hair bundles supports role in cochlear amplification
Kennedy et al, 2005
Active hair bundle motion (towards kinocilium, then recoil) linked to fast transducer adaptation
Ricci et al, 2000
Hair bundle stiffness declines to steady-state, with time course comparable to adaptation
Howard and Hudspeth, 1987
Difference in IHC/OHC properties accounted for by combination of MET channels and tip link number
Beurg et al, 2006
TRPV4 knockouts show no auditory defects
Liedtke and Friedman, 2003
Characteristic frequency changes with position; conductance positively correlated with CF
Ricci et al, 2003