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- Alfred L. Nuttall, Anthony J. Ricci, George Burwood, James M. Harte, Stefan Stenfelt, Per Cayé-Thomasen, Tianying Ren, Sripriya Ramamoorthy, Yuan Zhang, Teresa Wilson, Thomas Lunner, Brian C. J. Moore, Anders Fridberger. A mechanoelectrical mechanism for detection of sound envelopes in the hearing organ. Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06725-w
- Discovery of inner ear function may improve diagnosis of hearing impairment. Science Daily
In the news...
- Moving towards a future free of ototoxicity. Steyger, P., Cunningham, L., Esquivel, C., Watts, K.L., and Zuo, J.
- Potential Mechanisms Underlying Inflammation-Enhanced Aminoglycoside-Induced Cochleotoxicity. (2017) Jiang, M., Taghizadeh, F. and Steyger, P.
- Aminoglycoside-Induced Cochleotoxicity: A Review. (2017) Jiang, M., Karasawa, T. and Steyger P.
- The genetics of hair-cell function in zebrafish. Nicolson, T. (2017) J Neurogenetics, 31(3):102-12.
- Listen up! The importance of monitoring hearing while receiving aminoglycoside treatments. CF Roundtable, Summer 2017.
- Prevention key to slowing hearing loss. The Scribe, July 2017.
- A community network for deaf scientists: A letter. Science, 28 Apr 2017, 386-387.
- HHF Meet the 2017 Emerging Research Grantees: T. Balmer, PhD, C. Morgan, PhD
- Effect of gentamicin and levels of ambient sound on hearing screening outcomes in the neonatal intensive care unit: A pilot study. Garinis, A...Steyger, P. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol, 2017, 97:42.50.
- Culture media-based selection of endothelial cells, pericytes, and perivascular-resident macrophage-like melanocytes from the young mouse vestibular system. Zhang, J...Shi, X. Hear Res, 2017, 345:10-22.
- Living with hearing loss: Daily Cues. Hearing Health Magazine, Winter 2017, pp/ 8-10.
- Binaural pitch fusion: Comparison of normal-hearing and hearing impaired listeners. Reiss, L. J Acoust Soc Am, 2017, 141(3):1909-20.
- Antibiotic-induced hearing loss impacted by inflammation. Steyger, P. Hear Rev, 2015.
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Publication in Nature Communications. OHRC researchers discover that auditory sensory outer hair cells can generate sufficient force at all audible frequencies in the living inner ear for boosting hearing sensitivity:
- Ren, T., He., W. and Barr-Gillespie, P.G. (2016) Reverse transduction measured in the living cochlea by low-coherence heterodyne interferometry. Nature Communications, 7:10282 | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10282.
Featured article in the Journal of Neuroscience and highlighted in the Society for Neuroscience Neuronline website:
- Toro, C., Trapani, J., Pacentine, I., Maeda, R., Sheets, L., Mo, W., Nicolson, T. (2015) Dopamine modulates the activity of sensory hair cells. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(50): 16494-16503.
Other news...
Dr. Peter Barr-Gillespie mentioned in Oregonian article, "Future of gene-edited embryos not far away. But OHSU says caution still needed". (Dec, 2018)
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Hear Leaders: Five hearing-impaired scientists make OHSU auditory team one of the best in the world. Oregonian, November 25, 2016.