Monday, October 27, 2008

outer hair cell though i know you'll attenuate eventually...

i remember i posted a video of an outer hair cell dancing to rocking round the clock. since our class was revisiting the subject of outer hair cell and some classmate found something funnier.. i'm compelled to post it here. heh. a little bit far with the nerdiness...outer hair cells are believe to transduce electric signals into mechanic signals (contraction and expansion) and therefore amplifies cochlea's response to sound.




and on top of that i have to add this incredibly lame joke. so joe santos-sacchi who studies outer hair cells at yale tells his medical students that the motility in outer hair cells activates a direct dance reflex that goes from the ear to the motor system. ha ha.

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