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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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Autores principales: Ren, Tianying, He, Wenxuan, Porsov, Edward
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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