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Nature Neuroscience 12, 529 - 530 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0509-529
Bottoms up: transduction channels at tip link bases
Kateri J Spinelli1 & Peter G Gillespie1
- The authors are at the Oregon Hearing Research Center & Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA. e-mail: gillespp@ohsu.edu
Abstract
A study now demonstrates that the transduction channel responsible for converting sound to neural signals in the mammalian cochlea is excluded from the tallest row of stereocilia and is instead more likely in the bottom row.
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