The outer hair cells are located near the center of the basilar membrane where vibrations will be greatest while the basilar membrane is anchored under the inner hair cells (see Figure 5). These ...

Previously, hair cells have long been considered the most vulnerable elements in the inner ear, but researchers have now shown that nerve fibers are even more vulnerable to damage. The public ...

The nerve fibers (brown) can be seen on their way to the hair cells in the sensory epithelia. The nerve is made up of the neuronal projections that connect the hair cells with the brain and is called ...

For example, a compound that suppresses pain-sensing nerve cells elsewhere, also prevented type II afferent neurons from firing in response to outer hair cell death. At present, Fuchs cautions ...

The inner cells are most directly responsible for what we think of as “hearing” because 95 percent of auditory nerve fibers form synapses only with inner hair cells. Why so few fibers connect ...

Cochlear hair cells detect sound vibrations and generate force to enhance auditory sensitivity and frequency selectivity. Fettiplace and Hackney describe proteins involved in the sensory and motor ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – University of Michigan scientists have used gene therapy to grow new auditory hair cells in adult guinea pigs – a discovery that could lead to new treatments for human deafness ...

Some nerve cells in the inner ear can signal tissue damage in a way similar to pain-sensing nerve cells in the body, according to new research from Johns Hopkins. If the finding, discovered in ...

Some nerve cells in the inner ear can signal tissue damage in a way similar to pain-sensing nerve cells in the body, according to new research from Johns Hopkins. If the finding, discovered in rats, ...