Static length changes of cochlear outer hair cells can tune low-frequency hearing
Fig 6
Displacement at different depths in the organ of Corti under current stimulation.
(A) Representative recordings at different depths under the arc of Hensen cells under negative and positive current stimulation (bottom). (B) Displacements of cumulative data from various pulse protocols. The data have been normalized with respect to the average displacement at the surface of the organ, due to high variability in absolute values between preparations, and with time for a given preparation. The displacement vary only little with increasing depth of measurement, neither for positive (‘(+)’) nor negative (‘(o)’) currents, and neither in the presence (red) or absence (black) of sound stimuli. Mean values for each set of data with respect to depth only are shown by a flat line.