Biological sciences researchers from the U of A have led the publication of a paper that expands our understanding of sensory ...

Auditory hair cells in the inner ear are connected to the brain by several nerve fibres that are morphologically and functionally diverse. Their diversity allows us to distinguish different sound ...

The aim of this project is to unravel how electrical activity controls the maturation of sensory hair cells and the development of topographic maps in the brainstem. Moreover, we are interested in ...

and 3000 inner hair cells that transduce the mechanical vibrations into neural impulses that reach the primary auditory cortex via the eighth cranial nerve. Most notable in age-related hearing ...

“Although many individuals with hearing loss achieve excellent auditory and oral communication ... so regeneration of hair cells, either through drug treatment, stem cells or gene therapy ...