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News in Physiological Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 3, 107-111, June 1998
© 1998 Int. Union Physiol. Sci./Am. Physiol. Soc.

Outer Hair Cells Provide Active Tuning in the Organ of Corti

Mats Ulfendahl and Åke Flock

M. Ulfendahl is Associate Professor of Physiology, ENT Research Laboratory, King Gustaf V Research Institute, Karolinska Hospital, S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden; Å. Flock is Professor of Physiology, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
The detection of sound by the mammalian hearing organ, the organ of Corti, is far from a passive process with the sensory cells acting as mere receptors. The high sensitivity and sharp tuning of the auditory apparatus are very much dependant on the active mechanical behavior of the outer hair cells, acting as effector cells.






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