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Hair Cell Mechano-electrical Transduction and Synapse Transmission

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Sound signal is transduced to electrical signal in hair cells, transmitted across synapse to auditory nerve fibers (ANFs), and along the ascending pathway to the cochlear nucleus in the brainstem, then to the midbrain, and through the auditory thalamus to the auditory cortex. In every step, auditory signal has temporal structures representing the sound. I will discuss in this chapter two fundamental attributes of hair cell transduction: (1) how the receptor potential is generated in hair cells, and (2) how the hair cell receptor potential is transmitted across synapse to the auditory nerve fiber.

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Ohmori, H. (2019). Hair Cell Mechano-electrical Transduction and Synapse Transmission. In: Auditory Information Processing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9713-5_1

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