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Science 4 November 1983:
Vol. 222. no. 4623, pp. 510 - 512
DOI: 10.1126/science.6623090
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Science, Vol 222, Issue 4623, 510-512
Copyright © 1983 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Alternating current delivered into the scala media alters sound pressure at the eardrum

AE Hubbard and DC Mountain

Alternating current delivered into the scala media of the gerbil cochlea modulates the amplitude of a test tone measured near the eardrum. Variations in the electromechanical effect with acoustic stimulus parameters and observed physiological vulnerability suggest that cochlear hair cells are the biophysical origin of the process. Cochlear hair cells have traditionally been thought of as passive receptor cells, but they may play an active role in cochlear micromechanics.


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