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  • Title: The low-frequency response of inner hair cells in the guinea pig cochlea: implications for fluid coupling and resonance of the stereocilia.
    Author: Patuzzi RB, Yates GK.
    Journal: Hear Res; 1987; 30(1):83-98. PubMed ID: 3680057.
    Abstract:
    AC receptor potentials within the inner hair cells of the basal turn of the guinea pig cochlea have been recorded for stimuli in the frequency range 20 Hz to 3200 Hz. Comparison of these potentials with potentials recorded in scala media suggests that the stereocilia of many inner hair cells are stimulated by the transverse velocity of the cochlear partition for very low frequency, but above a transition frequency in the range 400 Hz to 1000 Hz they become entrained with partition displacement. It is suggested that such a transition is probably a simple consequence of the fluid coupling that drives these cells, and that mechanical resonance of the free-standing stereocilia of the inner hair cells does not occur in the basal turn of the guinea pig. These results do not, however, preclude the possibility of mechanical resonance involving the stereocilia of the outer hair cells. The results also indicate that the bodies of these cells low-pass filter the intracellular receptor potential, with a cutoff frequency of approximately 1000 Hz.
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