Publication Date:
2000-07-06
Description:
Auditory researchers agree that hair cells are the ear's miniature amplifiers. They just don't agree about how the curious devices work. The two most popular ideas--one involving chemically activated trapdoors, the other cells that pump like pistons--both have been boosted by recent research.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cho, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jun 16;288(5473):1954-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10877709" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anion Transport Proteins
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Auditory Perception
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Basilar Membrane/physiology
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Cilia/*physiology
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Electrophysiology
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Feedback
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Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/*physiology
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Hearing/*physiology
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Humans
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Ion Channels/physiology
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Models, Biological
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Pitch Discrimination
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Proteins/*physiology
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Vibration
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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