Unraveling the mystery of hearing in gerbil and other rodents with an arch-beam model of the basilar membrane

Abstract The mammalian basilar membrane (BM) consists of two collagen-fiber layers responsible for the frequency-to-place tonotopic mapping in the cochlea, which together form a flat beam over at least part of the BM width. The mechanics of hearing in rodents such as gerbil pose a challenge to our u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Santosh Kapuria, Charles R. Steele, Sunil Puria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00114-x