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      Cochlear mechanics: no shout but a twist in the absence of prestin.

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      Current biology : CB
      Elsevier BV

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          Abstract

          Mammalian hearing is boosted by mechanically active auditory receptor cells, the outer hair cells which amplify the actions of incoming sounds. Recent evidence indicates that the molecular motor that drives this amplification, prestin, may do more than boogie.

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          Journal
          Curr Biol
          Current biology : CB
          Elsevier BV
          0960-9822
          0960-9822
          Apr 08 2008
          : 18
          : 7
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, BML 244, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA. joseph.santos-sacchi@yale.edu
          Article
          S0960-9822(08)00164-4
          10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.019
          18397741
          d569b727-5e35-45f8-ab1e-921ee300947c
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