ELECTRICALLY-EVOKED BASILAR-MEMBRANE MOTION

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作者
XUE, SW
MOUNTAIN, DC
HUBBARD, AE
机构
[1] BOSTON UNIV,DEPT BIOMED ENGN,BOSTON,MA 02215
[2] BOSTON UNIV,DEPT OTOLARYNGOL,BOSTON,MA 02215
[3] BOSTON UNIV,DEPT ELECT & COMP SYST ENGN,BOSTON,MA 02215
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10.1121/1.413103
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O42 [声学];
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070206 ; 082403 ;
摘要
Electrically induced outer hair cell (OHC) motility, demonstrated by a number of investigators in isolated OHC preparations, has been considered to be a key mechanism in the active process which brings about the excellent sensitivity and frequency selectivity of the mammalian cochlea. In this study, electrical-to-mechanical transduction in the gerbil cochlea was demonstrated in vivo by direct measurement of basilar membrane motion evoked by sinusoidal electrical current injected into the scala media. The characteristic frequency (CF) of the measurement place was approximately 40 kHz as determined by the basilar membrane (BM) responses to acoustic stimulation. The results showed that basilar membrane motion could be evoked by electrical current of frequencies from below 10 Hz to exceeding 40 kHz. The magnitude and phase of the BM velocity response to constant current stimulation, from 100 Hz to 10 000 Hz, were similar to the acoustically driven BM velocity for constant umbo velocity. For frequencies in this range, the BM motion evoked by a current of 50 μA was comparable to the BM motion evoked by a 60 dB SPL acoustic stimulus. The phase of the electrically evoked BM motion indicates that positive current injected into the scala media caused the BM to move toward scala vestibuli for frequencies between 100 and 10 kHz. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that the electrically evoked BM motion is due to electrically evoked OHC length changes. © 1995, Acoustical Society of America. All rights reserved.
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