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ArticleCell reports2012

Waves on Reissner's membrane: a mechanism for the propagation of otoacoustic emissions from the cochlea.

Tobias Reichenbach, Aleksandra Stefanovic, Fumiaki Nin, A J Hudspeth

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Article in Cell reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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  2. Study on Attenuation Characteristics of Reissner's Membrane Mode in Cochlea.Journal of biomedical physics & engineering · 2024
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  9. An unusually powerful mode of low-frequency sound interference due to defective hair bundles of the auditory outer hair cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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4 authors.

Tobias ReichenbachHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065-6399, USA.
Aleksandra Stefanovic
Fumiaki Nin
A J Hudspeth

Funding

TRANSDUCTION MECHANISM OF HAIR CELLSR01DC000241 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SW MED CTR/DALLAS · PI HUDSPETH, ALBERT JAMES · 1989 to 2011
$4.1M
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE VOMERONASAL SYSTEMF32DC000241 · NIDCD · WORCESTER FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI JANG, TAICHANG · 1996 to 1998
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Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIDCD NIH HHS DC000241NIDCD NIH HHS F32 DC000241NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC000241
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sound is detected and converted into electrical signals within the ear. The cochlea not only acts as a passive detector of sound, however, but can also produce tones itself. These otoacoustic emissions are a striking manifestation of the cochlea's mechanical active process. A controversy remains of how these mechanical signals propagate back to the middle ear, from which they are emitted as sound. Here, we combine theoretical and experimental studies to show that mechanical signals can be transmitted by waves on Reissner's membrane, an elastic structure within the cochlea. We develop a theory for wave propagation on Reissner's membrane and its role in otoacoustic emissions. Employing a scanning laser interferometer, we measure traveling waves on Reissner's membrane in the gerbil, guinea pig, and chinchilla. The results are in accord with the theory and thus support a role for Reissner's membrane in otoacoustic emissions.

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SoundAnimalsChinchillaCochleaGerbillinaeGuinea PigsInterferometryModels, TheoreticalOtoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous

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PMID22580949
PMCPMC3348656

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