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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 116, Issue 11, Pages 1327-1335Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207450500519689
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calcium; cochlea; inner hair cell; membrane currents; transducer currents
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In free-standing hair bundle, depolarization to +80 mV evoked a stable outward current and repolarization to -80 mV evoked a transient inward current attributable to the opening of mechano-electric transducer channels. The study investigated the Ca2+ dependence of this transducer-like membrane current in isolated inner hair cells of guinea-pig cochlea. The amplitude of outward currents increased and the rate of inward current decay, corresponding to adaptation kinetics, decreasing as the extracellular Ca2+ concentrations lessened, whereas the amplitude of outward current decreased and an adaptation accelerated as the extracellular Ca2+ elevated. Treatment with the cAMP agonist, 8-bromo-cAMP, induced an effect similar to that caused by elevating the extracellular Ca2+.
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