Thanks to Olson, Manor and his team obtained cochlear samples from adult mice that had normal hearing and were either exposed ...

The cochlea houses the cell bodies of the cochlear nerve within a region called the spiral ganglion. It works to process sound in the following way: The average number of auditory nerve fibers can ...

The presence of two types of hair cells, the inner and outer hair cells, in the organ of Corti was appreciated nearly a 100 years ago but the function of the two has only become clear in the last 20 ...

The brain may play a role in helping the ear regulate its sensitivity to sound and compensate for hearing loss by sending a ...

To hear a sound, auditory signals travel through a person’s ear, where they are transformed into vibrations that swirl through fluid in the cochlea, a spiral, snail-like structure in the inner ear.

Furthermore, “not all patients qualify for cochlear implant surgery, so regeneration of hair cells, either through drug treatment, stem cells or gene therapy, is considered to be the ultimate ...

We are using various transgenic mouse lines to target gata3 expression and to explore its function in these different cell types in vivo. I am also developing conditionally immortal cochlear cell ...

The organ of Corti. Within the cochlear duct is the spiral Organ of Corti, which contains the receptor cell for hearing (Fig. 1C,D). The spiral organ of Corti rests on the basilar membrane.

Nerve fibers help regulate sound sensitivity in the inner ear, aiding in hearing loss compensation and reducing discomfort.

The cochlea uses sensory hair cells to detect sound waves in the air, then converts them into electrical signals that the brain can process. Most cochlear nerves carry information from the cochlea ...