Sentences with phrase «cochlear hair»

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.

Selective deletion of cochlear hair cells causes rapid age - dependent changes in spiral ganglion and cochlear nucleus neurons.

The device was tested in a guinea pig, with the electrodes attached to both sides of the rodent's cochlear hair cell membranes.

The best association was found at chromosome 3 close to the GATA2 gene that regulates the development of cochlear hair cells and the inferior colliculus (IC) in the auditory pathway.

Loud sounds put too much pressure on the cochlear hair cells, which can damage or kill them.

After exposing supporting cells — cells that can create new cochlear hairs — to a specialized drug mixture, the team saw significant new hair cell growth.

They thought that a low hum might straighten out those bent cochlear hairs.

Not exact matches

Using lasers instead of electrodes to vibrate the hairs in the inner ears could lead to less damaging cochlear implants

As the cochlea's fluid moves, about 15,000 hair cells sitting in it, each tuned to a particular frequency, pick up the motions; the cochlear nerve translates the movements into auditory messages that are sent to the brain.

«But we already have cochlear implants to replace hair cells, so we decided the first priority was to start by targeting the neurons.»

Treatment has focused on electronic devices like hearing aids or cochlear implants because once lost, human auditory hair cells do not grow back.

Cochlear (inner ear) development occurs normally to that point, but the blood supply to the cochlea (the stria vascularis) degenerates, so the hair cells of the cochlea die.