Radium wrote:
> Radium wrote:
>>>DK wrote:
>>>>>>>If inner hair cells are all dead (and they *are* if their proteins are
>>>denatured), then the alterations in auditory perceptions to occur
>>>would be deafness.
>>>>Any tinnitus? Any distortion in sound before complete deafness?
>>> What if only the IHCs of the ^apical^ membrane is affected?
>As opposed to inner hair cells of the basolateral membrane!?
I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a bionet topic.
For your information "Radium" there is a Basilar membrane, a Tectorial
membrane and a Vestibular membrane, there is no apical membrane.
http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/physio/cullenlab/img209/vestcol_opt.jpg
To answer your madly impossible hypothetical question, deafness would
occur. No distortion, nothing. No sound. Tinnitus is a neurological
condition which may occur 20% of the time.
