Eardrum comprise piezo-electric collagen fibers; do they transduct acoustical waves into electrical potentials able to reach the cochlear amplifier ?
Lots of possibilities exist in the transmission of sound and can explain discrepancies between audiological and clinical exams and patient responses. The presence of active transducers in the round window membrane has already been documented,a similar arrangement can be possible in the drum .
Would you like give us some references about active transducers of the round window ?
Dear Colleague,
I suppose there was a misunderstanding : We study the "covert path" which is electric and comes from collagen fibers piezoelectricity, for reaching through gap junctions the Deiters-cells/OHC complex at the level of the reticular lamina. We then describe the "trickystor" as a kind of Field Effect Transistor. It would interfere with the accepted mecano-electrical transduction by stereociliae, toward the inner aspect of the OHC cuticle and the prestinic structures of the OHC.
see https://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCEQFjAAahUKEwiu8sfc_ofJAhVDshQKHaoWCmY&url=http%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1310.7182&usg=AFQjCNGDWyAN8cuTNdOhI4vGCCyop5iI8Q&sig2=X_Sf8xnxfqr5rf6wzQXAlA
So, what is your thoughts about these observations ?
https://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCEQFjAAahUKEwiu8sfc_ofJAhVDshQKHaoWCmY&url=http%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1310.7182&usg=AFQjCNGDWyAN8cuTNdOhI4vGCCyop5iI8Q&sig2=X_Sf8xnxfqr5rf6wzQXAlA
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