Hearing Hairs Restored: Tiny hairs in our inner ears, called cochlear hair cells, are vital to our natural perception of sound, and once we lose them, we don't grow them back. (discovermagazine.com)
The device was tested in a guinea pig, with the electrodes attached to both sides of the rodent's cochlear hair cell membranes. (newscientist.com)
Cochlear hair cells normally detect positive deflections of their hair bundles, rotating toward their tallest edge, which opens mechanotransducer (MT) channels by increased tension in interciliary tip links. (inb.u-bordeaux2.fr)