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SUBMITTER: Wu JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5059429 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Jingjing Sherry JS Young Eric D ED Glowatzki Elisabeth E
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20161001 41
Auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) exhibit a range of spontaneous firing rates (SRs) that are inversely correlated with threshold for sounds. To probe the underlying mechanisms and time course of SR differentiation during cochlear maturation, loose-patch extracellular recordings were made from ANF dendrites using acutely excised rat cochlear preparations of different ages after hearing onset. Diversification of SRs occurred mostly between the second and the third postnatal week. Statistical properties ...[more]