Liu, Yanju M. Gracewski, Sheryl Nam, Jong-Hoon Local stiffness of the OCC. <p>(<b>A</b>) Stiffness of the OCC opposing outer hair cell elongation. When a coupled force <i>f</i><sub>C</sub> is applied at the ends of the outer hair cell, the stiffness felt by the outer hair cell can be calculated from the resultant displacement <i>δ</i><sub>C</sub>. Faint gray lines indicate the non-deformed configuration. (<b>B</b>) Stiffness of the OCC opposing hair bundle deflection. (<b>C</b>) Standard (thick curve) and test case (curve with ● symbols) values of <i>k</i><sub>OHC</sub>. The OCC stiffness felt by an outer hair cell (curve with + symbols) is also shown. In the test case, the axial stiffness of the outer hair cells was adjusted to obtain the opposite longitudinal trend of <i>r</i><sub>OHC</sub>. (<b>D</b>) Standard (thick curve) and test case (curve with ● symbols) values of <i>k</i><sub>OHB</sub>. (<b>E</b>) Standard and test case values of <i>r</i><sub><i>OHC</i></sub> = (<i>f</i><sub><i>C</i></sub><i>/δ</i><sub><i>C</i></sub>—<i>k</i><sub><i>OHC</i></sub>) /<i>k</i><sub><i>OHC</i></sub>. (<b>F</b>) Standard and test case values of <i>r</i><sub><i>OHB</i></sub> = (<i>f</i><sub><i>B</i></sub><i>/δ</i><sub><i>B</i></sub><i>—k</i><sub><i>OHB</i></sub>)/<i>k</i><sub><i>OHB</i></sub>.</p> hair cells;basilar membrane displacement;cochlear length;deformable 3 D;body kinematics;Corti mechanics;hair cell electro-mechanics;location-dependent cochlear amplification;vibration measurement techniques;membrane RC time 2017-09-07
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