The stereocilia bundle is the mechano-transduction apparatus of the inner ear. In the
mammalian cochlea, the stereocilia bundles are situated in the subtectorial space (STS)—a …

The ear detects sounds so faint that they produce only atomic-scale displacements in the
mechanoelectrical transducer, yet thermal noise causes fluctuations larger by an order of …

Avian hair cells depend on electrical resonance for frequency selectivity. The upper bound
of the frequency range is limited by the RC time constant of hair cells because the sharpness …

Although gating of mechanoelectrical transducer (MET) channels has been successfully
described by assuming that one channel is associated with a tip link in the hair bundle …

While the mammalian-and the avian inner ears have well defined tonotopic organizations as
well as hair cells specialized for motile and sensing roles, the structural organization of the …

Recent developments in research on the ear revealed amazing foresights of earlier
investigators on one hand and, on the other brought in a new set of experimental data that …

Hair cells constitute the cellular basis for hearing. Their primary role is to convert mechanical
signal into electrical signal through the ion channels, called “mechano-electrical transducer …