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SUBMITTER: Corbitt C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3379021 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Corbitt Christian C Farinelli Federica F Brownell William E WE Farrell Brenda B
Biophysical journal 20120619 12
Outer hair cells amplify and improve the frequency selectivity of sound within the mammalian cochlea through a sound-evoked receptor potential that induces an electromechanical response in their lateral wall membrane. We experimentally show that the membrane area and linear membrane capacitance of outer hair cells increases exponentially with the electrically evoked voltage-dependent charge movement (Q(T)) and peak membrane capacitance (C(peak)). We determine the size of the different functional ...[more]