Stiffness and tension gradients of the hair cell’s tip-link complex in the mammalian cochlea
M. Tobin, A. Chaiyasitdhi, V. Michel, N. Michalski, P. Martin
The paper investigates mechanical properties of hair cells in the rat cochlea, finding stiffness and tension gradients that correlate with tonotopy and contribute to frequency tuning.
bioRxiv · Mar 6, 2019Biophysics