ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2008
Cochlear amplification, outer hair cells and prestin.
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- CASZ1 regulates the maturation of outer hair cells and is required for hearing in mice.iScience · 2026Article
- TECTB Variants Reveal Tectorial Membrane Vulnerability in Dominant Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
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- The genetic foundations of convergent traits.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- Electromotility can be disassociated from gating charge movement in outer hair cells of conditional alpha2 spectrin knockout mice.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Article
- Auditory Hair Cell Mechanotransduction Channels Dynamically Shape the Mechanical Properties of Their Membrane Environment.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Aspirin in Audiology: A Dual-Edged Sword in Hearing Loss and Its Nanotechnology-Driven Future.Drug design, development and therapy · 2026Review
- Altered Auditory Maturation in Fragile X Syndrome and Its Involvement in Audiogenic Seizure Susceptibility.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Medial Olivocochlear Efferent Modulation of Cochlear Micromechanics Requires P2X4 Receptor in Outer Hair Cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- ThemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Sound-evoked tonic motility of cochlear outer hair cells in mice with stereociliary defects.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Amplification through local critical behavior in the mammalian cochlea.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- SHANK2 establishes auditory hair bundle architecture essential for mammalian hearing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Hearing restoration through hair cell regeneration: A review of recent advancements and current limitations.Hearing research · 2025Review
- Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- MYH1 deficiency disrupts outer hair cell electromotility, resulting in hearing loss.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2024Article
- Diverse Roles of the LINC Complex in Cellular Function and Disease in the Nervous System.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels in Cochlear Function: Looking Beyond Mechanotransduction.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024Article
- Creation of a novel CRISPR-generated allele to express HA epitope-tagged C1QL1 and improved methods for its detection at synapses.FEBS letters · 2024Article
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Abstract
Mechanical amplification of acoustic signals is apparently a common feature of vertebrate auditory organs. In non-mammalian vertebrates amplification is produced by stereociliary processes, related to the mechanotransducer channel complex and probably to the phenomenon of fast adaptation. The extended frequency range of the mammalian cochlea has probably co-evolved with a novel hair cell type, the outer hair cell and its constituent membrane protein, prestin. Cylindrical outer hair cells are motile and their somatic length changes are voltage driven and powered by prestin. One of the central outstanding problems in mammalian cochlear neurobiology is the relation between the two amplification processes.
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