In mammals, environmental sounds stimulate the auditory receptor, the cochlea, via
vibrations of the stapes, the innermost of the middle ear ossicles. These vibrations produce …

Outer hair cell electromotility is a rapid, force generating, length change in response to
electrical stimulation. DC electrical pulses either elongate or shorten the cell and sinusoidal …

A widely held hypothesis of mammalian cochlear function is that the mechanical responses
to sound of the basilar membrane depend on transduction by the outer hair cells. We have …

As sensory cells, hair cells within the mammalian inner ear convert sounds into receptor
potentials when their projecting stereocilia are deflected. The organ of Corti of the cochlea …

Sound-evoked vibrations transmitted into the mammalian cochlea produce traveling waves
that provide the mechanical tuning necessary for spectral decomposition of sound. These …

Traditionally, applications of biomechanics will model system-level aspects of the human
body. As a result, the majority of technological progress to date appears in system-level …

Objective: Reflectance measured in the ear canal offers a noninvasive method to monitor the
acoustic properties of the middle ear, and few systematic measurements exist on the effects …

A commercially-available laser Doppler-shift velocimeter has been coupled to a compound
microscope equipped with ultra-long-working-distance objectives for the purpose of …

▪ Abstract Outer hair cell electromotility is crucial for the amplification, sharp frequency
selectivity, and nonlinearities of the mammalian cochlea. Current modeling efforts based on …

An increasing amount of support is accumulating for the hypothesis that the outer hair cells
(OHC) of a mammalian cochlea give rise to an enhanced sensitivity and markedly sharp …