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ArticlePhysical review letters2019

Nanoscale Poroelasticity of the Tectorial Membrane Determines Hair Bundle Deflections.

Jonathan B Sellon, Mojtaba Azadi, Ramin Oftadeh, Hadi Tavakoli Nia, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Alan J Grodzinsky, Dennis M Freeman

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Article in Physical review letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  2. Aggrecan: Approaches to Study Biophysical and Biomechanical Properties.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  4. Dirac cones and chiral selection of elastic waves in a soft strip.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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Jonathan B SellonResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Mojtaba AzadiSchool of Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA.
Ramin OftadehCenter for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Hadi Tavakoli NiaMassachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Roozbeh GhaffariResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Alan J GrodzinskyCenter for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Dennis M FreemanResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Funding

EXPERIMENTAL/THEORETICAL STUDIES OF COCHLEAR MECHANISMSR01DC000238 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Dennis M Freeman · 1989 to 2026
$8.1M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC000238
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stereociliary imprints in the tectorial membrane (TM) have been taken as evidence that outer hair cells are sensitive to shearing displacements of the TM, which plays a key role in shaping cochlear sensitivity and frequency selectivity via resonance and traveling wave mechanisms. However, the TM is highly hydrated (97% water by weight), suggesting that the TM may be flexible even at the level of single hair cells. Here we show that nanoscale oscillatory displacements of microscale spherical probes in contact with the TM are resisted by frequency-dependent forces that are in phase with TM displacement at low and high frequencies, but are in phase with TM velocity at transition frequencies. The phase lead can be as much as a quarter of a cycle, thereby contributing to frequency selectivity and stability of cochlear amplification.

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PMCPMC6813812

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