The senses of hearing and equilibrium depend on sensory receptors called hair cells which
can detect motions of atomic dimensions and respond more than 100,000 times a second. …

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The inner ear's performance is greatly enhanced by an active process defined by four
features: amplification, frequency selectivity, compressive nonlinearity, and spontaneous …

Hair cells, the primary receptors of the auditory, vestibular, and lateral-line sensory systems,
produce electrical signals in response to mechanical stimulation of their apical hair bundles. …

Our hearing organ, the cochlea, evidently poises itself at a Hopf bifurcation to maximize tuning
and amplification. We show that in this condition several effects are expected to be generic…

A crucial event in the hearing process is the transduction of mechanical stimuli into electrical
signals by hair cells, the sensory receptors of the internal ear. Stimulation results in the …

Research on the auditory system has come of age. Al-This hearing loss is ordinarily
permanent, for cochlear though hearing lacks some of the simplifying features hair cells are not …

Kinesin is a motor protein that uses energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to move organelles
along microtubules. Using a new technique for measuring the movement produced in vitro …

The detection of osmotic stimuli is essential for all organisms, yet few osmoreceptive proteins
are known, none of them in vertebrates. By employing a candidate-gene approach based …

Mechanical stimuli are thought to open the transduction channels of a hair cell by tensing
elastic components, the gating springs, that pull directly on the channels. To test this model, we …