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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2019

Hair Cell Afferent Synapses: Function and Dysfunction.

Stuart L Johnson, Saaid Safieddine, Mirna Mustapha, Walter Marcotti

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Spontaneous Calcium Signalling in the Developing Mammalian Cochlea.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026
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  5. Spontaneous CaExperimental physiology · 2026
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  7. Hair cell loss - cause or consequence of hearing loss?Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  16. In vivo spontaneous CaNature communications · 2025
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  20. Probing the role of the CFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Stuart L JohnsonDepartment of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
Saaid SafieddineUMRS 1120, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Mirna MustaphaDepartment of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
Walter MarcottiDepartment of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S002510/1Wellcome Trust 102892Wellcome Trust 102892/Z/13/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To provide a meaningful representation of the auditory landscape, mammalian cochlear hair cells are optimized to detect sounds over an incredibly broad range of frequencies and intensities with unparalleled accuracy. This ability is largely conferred by specialized ribbon synapses that continuously transmit acoustic information with high fidelity and sub-millisecond precision to the afferent dendrites of the spiral ganglion neurons. To achieve this extraordinary task, ribbon synapses employ a unique combination of molecules and mechanisms that are tailored to sounds of different frequencies. Here we review the current understanding of how the hair cell's presynaptic machinery and its postsynaptic afferent connections are formed, how they mature, and how their function is adapted for an accurate perception of sound.

Indexed as

AnimalsCalcium Channels, L-TypeHair Cells, AuditoryHumansMembrane PotentialsNeurons, AfferentReceptors, GlutamateSynapsesCalcium Channels, L-TypeReceptors, Glutamate

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PMID30617058
PMCPMC6886459

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