New insights into cochlear sound encoding

The inner ear uses specialized synapses to indefatigably transmit sound information from hair cells to spiral ganglion neurons at high rates with submillisecond precision. The emerging view is that hair cell synapses achieve their demanding function by employing an unconventional presynaptic molecul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Moser, Tobias, Vogl, Christian
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: F1000Research 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007750/