why have a coiled cochlea?
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Why have a coiled cochlea?
• “The spiral acts like a whispering gallery and redistributions the wave energy to increase the pressure difference across the cochlear partition in the radial direction, away from the modiolus. This has a tendency to increase the motion of the reticular lamina toward the modiolus, for a given upward motion of the basilar membrane, which in turn tends to shear the hair cell bundles more in the depolarizing direction. The effect is greatest at the apex where low frequencies are processed. The greater the ratio of the radius of curvature of the basal turn to that of the apical turn , lowers the low frequency limit of any mammal we have looked at, from mouse to whale.
All the best, Richard”
(Richard Chadwick, NIH, NIDCD Section on BioPhysics) -increases low frequency signal by 10-20 dB with ratio >8 (h=10)
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502 Lecture #2: The cochlea, place coding, active process
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Cochlear cross-section at a single turn
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The organ of Corti
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Mid-basal turn guinea pig O.Corti
* Tunnel of Corti
efferent fibers OHC bodies
20 u
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Tho stiff, longer stereocilia are more flexible. While not proven, longer stereocilia and a wider basilar membrane may aid in low frequency detection.
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Tonotopic organization
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von Bekesy’s experiments (1950s)
• Using cadavers (human and animal)• Temporal bone was rapidly dissected• In saline rubber replaced oval/round windows• Mechanical vibrator replaced stirrup• Cochlear wall opened, exposing Reissner’s mbr• Silver particles on mbr visualized with scope / strobe
• Two types of experiments:– Opened length of cochlea, plotted waveforms and
envelopes for sounds of different frequencies – Opened cochlea at certain points, measured
vibrations at those points with different frequencies
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Base Apex
LowHigh
FREQUENCY
PLACE
BASILAR MEMBRANE
DISPLACEMENT
Exposed cochlear partition; stimulation with one frequency
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Base Apex
LowHigh
FREQUENCY
PLACE
BASILAR MEMBRANE
DISPLACEMENT
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ApexWider basilar mbrLow frequency
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Each curve represents the reponses von Bekesy observed when he studied the reponses of one place along the cochlea to stimulation with a range of frequencies with loud tones.
From von Bekesy, 1960Distance from stapes
24 mm
50 100 200 300 500
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Frequency place code!
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von Bekesy’s findings
• Insights:– Sound vibration gives traveling wave with gradual
rise and rapid fall off– Cochlea has frequency-specific place code
• Limitations:– Used non-physiological amplitude
• Needed 130 dB to see Ag+ particles move
– Measurements made on cadavers• Normal responses require live animal
– The active process
• Nobel prize in Medicine, 1961
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LowHighFREQUENCY
Base ApexPLACE
BASILAR MEMBRANE DISPLACEMENT
INTENSITY
BekesyStimulus
LINEAR
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LowHighFREQUENCY
Base ApexPLACE
BASILAR MEMBRANE DISPLACEMENT
INTENSITY
NONLINEAR
CochlearAmplifier
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Displacement as afunction of frequencyParameter: sound intensity
Threshold as a functionOf sound intensity
From Sellick, ea 1982
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LowHighFREQUENCY
Base ApexPLACE
BASILAR MEMBRANE DISPLACEMENT
INTENSITY
NONLINEAR
CochlearAmplifier
Threshold level
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Characteristics of the Active Process
• Is frequency specific, following place code of the cochlea– All cellular machinery aligned at frequency
• Requires metabolic energy– Not present in dead cochlea
• Depends on the endolymphatic cochlear battery– Furosemide decreases [K+], stops process
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Principal ReceptorSends frequency-specific Information to brain based on the vibratory pattern of the basilar membrane
Receptor/Effector (cochlear amplifier)Provides frequency-specific energy to the basilar membrane. Compressive nonlinearity - enhance responses to low level stimuli. Powered by endocochlear potential.
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Afferent EfferentCochlear nerve
axons How can we measure the energy of the cochlear amplifier?
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Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions (DPOAEs)
dB S
PL
50
0
f1 f2
1.0 1.10.9
Primary Tones
2f1-f2
Emission generated by OHCs through an active process
S. Blatrix & R. Pujol. www.the-cochlea.info
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Receptor/Effector (cochlear amplifier)Provides frequency-specific energy to the basilar membrane. Compressive nonlinearity - enhance responses to low level stimuli. Powered by endocochlear potential.
The outer hair cell motor protein:
Prestin - isolated 2002.One member of a large class of sugar transporters. Co-opted to be a motor protein. Localized to basolateral membrane. Voltage sensitive.
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From Adler, ea. Hearing Res. 184:27, 2003
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Cloned prestin gives motility to tsa cells
a) Transfected cell sucked into pipet
b) Response to 200Hz stim by 2 prestin cells (top); control
c) Reduced by salicylate (comp at anion site)
d) Responses to 200Hz and 1kHz commands
e) Fourier transform of responses in d.
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Prestin KO mice
Electromotility is lost in -/- mice
ABRs, DPOAEs are lost in -/- miceFrom Liberman, etal. Nature 419:300, 2002
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Summary - Cochlea
• Traveling waves distribute frequency specific excitation along cochlear epithelia
• Outer hair cells amplify displacement of basilar membrane - the cochlear amplifier!
• Inner hair cells transform frequency specific mechanical activity into electrical activity - auditory encoding based on a place code!
• Molecular components are being defined largely through study of deafness genes