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J Neurophysiol 79: 2235-2239, 1998;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 79 No. 4 April 1998, pp. 2235-2239
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society

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Ionic Currents and Electromotility in Inner Ear Hair Cells From Humans

John S. Oghalai1, Jeffrey R. Holt2, Takashi Nakagawa1, 3, Thomas M. Jung1, Newton J. Coker4, Herman A. Jenkins1, Ruth Anne Eatock1, and William E. Brownell1

1 Bobby R. Alford Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030; 2 Department of Neurobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114; 3 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; and 4 Texas Ear, Nose, and Throat Consultants, Houston, Texas 77030

Oghalai, John S., Jeffrey R. Holt, Takashi Nakagawa, Thomas M. Jung, Newton J. Coker, Herman A. Jenkins, Ruth Anne Eatock, and William E. Brownell. Ionic currents and electromotility in inner ear hair cells from humans. J. Neurophysiol. 79: 2235-2239, 1998. The upright posture and rich vocalizations of primates place demands on their senses of balance and hearing that differ from those of other animals. There is a wealth of behavioral, psychophysical, and CNS measures characterizing these senses in primates, but no prior recordings from their inner ear sensory receptor cells. We harvested human hair cells from patients undergoing surgical removal of life-threatening brain stem tumors and measured their ionic currents and electromotile responses. The hair cells were either isolated or left in situ in their sensory epithelium and investigated using the tight-seal, whole cell technique. We recorded from both type I and type II vestibular hair cells under voltage clamp and found four voltage-dependent currents, each of which has been reported in hair cells of other animals. Cochlear outer hair cells demonstrated electromotility in response to voltage steps like that seen in rodent animal models. Our results reveal many qualitative similarities to hair cells obtained from other animals and justify continued investigations to explore quantitative differences that may be associated with normal or pathological human sensation.




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