Widespread soil acidification due to atmospheric acid deposition and agricultural fertilization
may greatly accelerate soil carbonate dissolution and CO 2 release. However, to date, few …

The mammalian outer hair cell (OHC) protein prestin (Slc26a5) differs from other Slc26 family
members due to its unique piezoelectric-like property that drives OHC electromotility, the …

The outer hair cell lateral membrane motor, prestin, drives the cell's mechanical response
that underpins mammalian cochlear amplification. Little is known about the protein's structure-…

The integral membrane protein prestin, a member of the SLC26 anion transporter family, is
responsible for the voltage-driven electromotility of mammalian outer hair cells. It was argued …

The male antifertility effect of a water–chloroform extract of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. f. (GTW)
and several monomers isolated from GTW has attracted worldwide interest. In the …

Ion channel plays a key role in maturation, capacitation and acrosome reaction of sperm.
However, as it is difficult to record channel currents from a mature mammal sperm directly by …

The male antifertility effect of a water-chloroform extract (GTW) from the root xylem of
Tripterygium wilfordii has attracted worldwide interest. In the present study, by using whole-cell …

Several studies have documented the early development of OHC electromechanical
behavior. The mechanical response (electromotility, eM) and its electrical correlate (nonlinear …

Naked mole-rats are highly vocal, eusocial, subterranean rodents with, counterintuitively,
poor hearing. The causes underlying their altered hearing are unknown. Moreover, whether …

Zebrafish are popular models for biological discovery. For investigators of the auditory and
vestibular periphery, manipulations of hair cell and synaptic mechanisms have relied on …