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Localization of the Cochlear Amplifier in Living Sensitive Ears
BACKGROUND: To detect soft sounds, the mammalian cochlea increases its sensitivity by amplifying incoming sounds up to one thousand times. Although the cochlear amplifier is thought to be a local cellular process at an area basal to the response peak on the spiral basilar membrane, its location has...
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Public Library of Science
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3100343/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21629790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020149 |