基本説明
Special Issue: 'Audiology and Neuro-Otology 2002, Vol. 7, No. 1'.
Full Description
This special issue represents the second of three issues containing papers arising from the 'Auditory Function and Dysfunction: Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms' symposium held in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2001. It includes three main themes. The first, Auditory Central Nervous System Processing and Plasticity (Vol. 6, No. 4, 2001), considers advances made in understanding the cellular and molecular basis of active tuning in the mammalian cochlea, the 'cochlear amplifier'. This, the second, discusses the structural relationships between sensory and supporting cells in the inner ear and their underlying membrane properties, and, in the third section, Gene Therapy and Therapeutic Interventions (Vol. 7, No. 3, 2002, in preparation) papers on the peripheral auditory synaptic transmission and neurohumoral signalling are included. This and the other two issues stemming from the symposium will be valuable contributions to the communication between the wide-ranging disciplines within the hearing sciences and the clinic.
Contents
Cochlear transduction - from models to molecules and back again, J.F. Ashmore, J.-M. Chambard, S. Richmond; Prestin, the motor protein of outer hair cells, J. Zheng, L.D. Madison, D. Oliver, et al; mechanical transduction in outer hair cells, A.W. Gummer, J. Meyer, G. Frank, et al.; non-linear aspects of outer hair cell transduction and the temporary threshold shifts after acoustic trauma, R. Patuzzi; in vivo micromechanical measurements of the organ of corti in the basal cochlear turn, A.L. Nuttall, T. Ren, E. de Boer, et al.; exploring the living cochlea using confocal microscopy, M. Ulfendahl, J. Boutet de Monvel, S. Le Calvez; mechanoelectrical and voltage-gated ion channels in mammalian vestibular hair cells, R.A. Eatock, K.M. Hurley, M.A. Vollrath; roles of fibroblast growth factors in the inner ear, J.O. Pickles, B. Chir; the synaptic physiology of cochlear hair cells, P. Fuchs; vesicle targeting in hair cells, R.J. Wenthold, S. Safieddine, C.D. Ly, et al.; the inner hair cell synaptic complex - physiology, pharmacology and new therapeutic strategies, J.-L. Puel, J. Ruel, M. Guitton, et al.; purinergic regulation of sound transduction and auditory neurotransmission, G.D. Housley, D.J. Jagger, D. Greenwood, et al.; a role for purinergic receptors at the inner hair cell-afferent synapse?, D. Robertson, B. Paki.
