Fast adaptation in the mammalian cochlea: a conserved mechanism for cochlear amplification
Meredith Strassmaier
& Peter G Gillespie
Meredith Strassmaier and Peter G Gillespie are at the Oregon Hearing Research Center and the Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA. gillespp@ohsu.edu
In fish and amphibians, auditory cells use a rapid channel reclosure mechanism to amplify and discriminate sound stimuli. New evidence from Kennedy et. al. suggests that mammalian outer hair cells also use a similar form of fast adaptation.
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