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 ...

Outer hair cells are isolated from the organ of Corti and kept alive ... The membranes of this structure form what is equivalent to the inner tube of older tires. This "inner tube" lines the ...

Outer hair cells (OHCs) in the cochlea play a crucial role in mammalian hearing by amplifying sound vibrations. This amplification is largely driven by a protein called prestin, which exhibits ...