New tunes from Corti’s organ: the outer hair cell boogie rules

Patch clamped responses from outer hair

Patch clamped responses from outer hair cells in the intact adult organ of Corti

✍ Fabio Mammano; Corné J. Kros; Jonathan F. Ashmore 📂 Article 📅 1995 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 945 KB

Outer hair cells (OHCs) from the mammalian cochlea act as both sensory cells and motor cells. We report here whole-cell tight seal recordings of OHC activity in their natural embedding tissue, the intact organ of Corti, using a temporal bone preparation. The mean cell resting potential, -76 + 4 mV (