The membrane protein prestin is native to the cochlear outer hair cell that is crucial to the ear's amplification and frequency selectivity throughout the whole acoustic frequency range. The outer hair cell exhibits interrelated dimensional changes, force generation, and electric charge transfer. Cells transfected with prestin acquire unique active properties similar to those in the native cell that have also been useful in understanding the process. Here we propose a model describing the major electromechanical features of such active membranes. The model derived from thermodynamic principles is in the form of integral relationships between the history of voltage and membrane resultants as independent variables and the charge density and s...
This thesis tackles issues in cochlear mechanics both at the microscopic and macroscopic level. Insi...
AbstractOne of the central questions in the biophysics of the mammalian cochlea is determining the c...
AbstractIt has been shown that the membrane motor in the outer hair cell is driven by the membrane p...
Prestin was found in the membrane of outer hair cells (OHCs) located in the cochlea of the mammalian...
The voltage-dependent movement, or electromotility, of cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) contributes ...
AbstractOuter hair cells (OHC) possess voltage-dependent membrane bound molecular motors, identified...
Electro-diffusion model Membrane motor complex Non-linear capacitance High frequency a b s t r a c t...
Membrane flexoelectricity is an electromechanical coupling effect between the membrane average curva...
Liquid crystal flexoelectric actuation uses an imposed electric field to create membrane bending, th...
The outer hair cell (OHC) in the mammalian ear has a unique membrane potential-dependent motility, w...
Liquid crystal flexoelectric actuation uses an imposed electric field to create mem- brane bending a...
AbstractThe voltage-dependent movement, or electromotility, of cochlear outer hair cells contributes...
Abstract—We present the results of a modeling study on the impact of mechanosensitive channels in th...
AbstractWe propose a new mechanism for outer hair cell electromotility based on electrically induced...
Almost 25 years ago, the unique electromotile activity of mammalian outer hair cells (OHCs) was disc...
This thesis tackles issues in cochlear mechanics both at the microscopic and macroscopic level. Insi...
AbstractOne of the central questions in the biophysics of the mammalian cochlea is determining the c...
AbstractIt has been shown that the membrane motor in the outer hair cell is driven by the membrane p...
Prestin was found in the membrane of outer hair cells (OHCs) located in the cochlea of the mammalian...
The voltage-dependent movement, or electromotility, of cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) contributes ...
AbstractOuter hair cells (OHC) possess voltage-dependent membrane bound molecular motors, identified...
Electro-diffusion model Membrane motor complex Non-linear capacitance High frequency a b s t r a c t...
Membrane flexoelectricity is an electromechanical coupling effect between the membrane average curva...
Liquid crystal flexoelectric actuation uses an imposed electric field to create membrane bending, th...
The outer hair cell (OHC) in the mammalian ear has a unique membrane potential-dependent motility, w...
Liquid crystal flexoelectric actuation uses an imposed electric field to create mem- brane bending a...
AbstractThe voltage-dependent movement, or electromotility, of cochlear outer hair cells contributes...
Abstract—We present the results of a modeling study on the impact of mechanosensitive channels in th...
AbstractWe propose a new mechanism for outer hair cell electromotility based on electrically induced...
Almost 25 years ago, the unique electromotile activity of mammalian outer hair cells (OHCs) was disc...
This thesis tackles issues in cochlear mechanics both at the microscopic and macroscopic level. Insi...
AbstractOne of the central questions in the biophysics of the mammalian cochlea is determining the c...
AbstractIt has been shown that the membrane motor in the outer hair cell is driven by the membrane p...