Otology

Key to lifelong hearing identified as continuous self-renewal of the sensory sterocilia

Published in Health and Medicine Week, September 16th, 2002

Why do some people recover from some noise exposure in a matter of hours or days' Why, in fact, are humans able to make use of the mechanically sensitive hair cell stereocilia to hear throughout the auditory punishments of a lifetime' Most mechanical systems, when assaulted, break down or cease to function.

According to Dr. Bechara Kachar and his colleagues at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), Section of Structural Biology, "The answer to this rapid recovery appears to be centered in a 'treadmill' of renewal, running from the tip of the sensory stereocilia to its base." The study is published in the August 22, 2002, issue...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2002-09-16)

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