Top: Rows of healthy sensory hair cells in the mouse inner ear with green stereocilia arcs. Middle: In Rest mutant mice, hair cells are disorganized, and stereocilia barely visible. Bottom ...

The function of the outer hair cell in hearing is now perceived as that of a cochlear amplifier that refines the sensitivity and frequency selectivity of the mechanical vibrations of the cochlea.

Looking to further explain the molecular mechanisms behind hearing loss, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine were able to show evidence that the ability of the outer ear hair cell to amplify ...

In most people who develop hearing loss, the hair cells in the cochlea are damaged or missing, usually due to aging, exposure ...

The device uses an external microphone to pick up sounds in the environment – speech or music, for example – and sends that to a surgically implanted device that stimulates the hearing nerve rather ...

Inside the cochlea, the moving fluid stimulates tiny sensory cells called hair cells. This causes them to release chemicals, which generate an electrical signal. The signal then travels along the ...

The inner hair cells are arranged in a single row and remain free to respond to movement of endolymph in the cochlear duct. The outer hair cells are arranged in 3 rows in the basal coil of the ...

The cochlear nerve, also known as the acoustic or auditory nerve, is the cranial nerve responsible for hearing. It travels ...

A research team led by MedUni Vienna has investigated AC102, a new active substance that offers hope of an effective treatment for acute sudden hearing loss. The latest results have been published in ...

Sensory hair cells in the cochlea of a Beethoven mouse treated with TMC2 gene therapy. In this confocal microscopy image, microvilli are shown in red and cell bodies in green. The human ear has ...