Sentences with phrase «outer hair»

Do not choose a puppy older than a few weeks that has so many black - tipped outer hairs that it appears to be black rather than gray.
Compared with a normal mouse cochlea (top), cisplatin exposure reduces the number of outer hair cells (middle).
After infection with CMV, these mice developed profound hearing loss and lost a significant amount of outer hair cells, which are found in the ear and play an important role in hearing.
While previous vectors have only been able to penetrate the cochlea's inner hair cells, the first Nature Biotechnology study showed that a new synthetic vector, Anc80, safely transferred genes to the hard - to - reach outer hair cells when introduced into the cochlea (see images).
These dogs shed a thick undercoat, which easily mats into their long outer hair, creating a constant grooming need.
When a corrected Ush1c gene was introduced into the inner ears of the mice, the inner and outer hair cells in the cochlea began to produce normal full - length harmonin.
Post-treatment tests revealed that the gene entered between 30 and 70 percent of hair cells, reaching both inner and outer hair cells.
«Outer hair cells amplify sound, allowing inner hair cells to send a stronger signal to the brain.
Both inner and outer hair cells can be damaged by loud noises, drugs such as some antibiotics and disease, and don't regrow.
Thousands of sensory receptors line a part of the cochlea called the organ of Corti, as rows of inner and outer hair cells.
Sound waves, amplified by the outer hair cells (shown above right), vibrate the inner hair cells, opening ion channels on their surface that let neurotransmitters flow in.
Electron microscopy revealed that the extra hair cells were divided into inner and outer hair cells, just like the normal ones, and they made the same proteins.
The outer hairs have a coarser feel than the softer, inner ones.
The outer hairs hold the undercoat in until it falls out or is brushed out.
The outer hair always has black tips, which is indicative to the breed.
Although completely lacking guard hairs - the long, stiff, outer hairs that act as a barrier against the elements - the Cornish Rex's coat is made up of the soft inner down and awn hairs, with down hair predominating.
This is a nonshedding dog, which means that loose hairs are caught in the outer hairs, tending to tangle, unless they are combed out.
The outer hairs are hard and wiry and the undercoat soft.
Never comb just the outer hair, but get all the way down to the skin.
The outer hairs are rough and harsh, with the undercoat being fine, soft and dense.
The cords are formed by the mingling of the soft fine undercoat with the outer hair, because they grow at different rates the natural cording occurs.
OHC, Outer Hair Cells.
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