... matters, even in hearing. Specifically, it is the shape of the cochlea - the snail-shell-shaped organ in the inner ...
... Phys.org) -- The word “cochlea” comes from the Latin for “snail shell.” While this inner ear ... to this view by performing simulations showing that a coiled cochlea can detect the source of a sound in the vertical direction ...
... two varieties of stem cells into mouse cochlea have concluded that both adult-derived induced ... associated with transplanting iPS cells into mouse cochleae. Given the potential for tumorigenesis, they concluded that the source ...
... investigators have found that an electrically powered amplification mechanism in the cochlea of the ear is critical to the acute hearing of humans ... or overdose of drugs such as aspirin. Sound entering the cochlea is detected by the vibration of tiny, hair-like ...
... the way the brain processes sounds. Beginning in the cochlea of the inner ear, nerve cells of the auditory ...
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have grown tiny hair cells that are necessary for hearing, suggesting a new therapy to regain hearing might be possible.
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... feedback loop. While recent artificial cochleas have been developed that are extremely close to the performance of the biological ... auditory information is lost and the tuning capabilities of the cochlea can be fully utilized. Their findings indicate that biophysically ...
... they show that a small number migrated to the damaged cochlea and repaired sensory hair cells and neurons ...
... abnormalities 87 (32 percent) had abnormalities of the cochlea, a spiral structure containing hair cells ... ." "With MRI, these soft tissue components of hearing from the cochlea to the auditory cortex can be elucidated, which should improve ...
... measured the amount of cisplatin and oxaliplatin that reached the cochlea in guinea pigs following intravenous dosing of each drug. The total platinum concentration in the cochlea was more than five-fold higher with cisplatin than with oxaliplatin ...
... palaeontologist and lead author on the study. "The size of the cochlea duct (the bony part of the inner ear ...
... human auditory stem cells from fetal cochleae (the auditory portion of the inner ear) and found they had the capacity ...
... how the flexoelectric effect "can account for the amplification of sound in the cochlea." Stereocilia essentially are membranes that have been rolled into tiny ... of stereocilia changes along the coiled length of the cochlea. Different lengths are sensitive to different frequencies ...
... from stem cells and human tissue from donated cochleae. Moving images of how nerve cells, like ...
