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Magnetic Force Nanoprobe for Direct Observation of Audio Frequency Tonotopy of Hair Cells.

Authors
 Ji-wook Kim  ;  Jae-Hyun Lee  ;  Ji-Hyun Ma  ;  Eunna Chung  ;  Hongsuh Choi  ;  Jinwoong Bok  ;  Jinwoo Cheon 
Citation
 NANO LETTERS, Vol.16(6) : 3885-3891, 2016 
Journal Title
NANO LETTERS
ISSN
 1530-6984 
Issue Date
2016
Keywords
Magnetic nanoparticle ; audio frequency ; avian hair cell ; bundle recovery time constant ; mechanical force ; tonotopy
Abstract
Sound perception via mechano-sensation is a remarkably sensitive and fast transmission process, converting sound as a mechanical input to neural signals in a living organism. Although knowledge of auditory hair cell functions has advanced over the past decades, challenges remain in understanding their biomechanics, partly because of their biophysical complexity and the lack of appropriate probing tools. Most current studies of hair cells have been conducted in a relatively low-frequency range (<1000 Hz); therefore, fast kinetic study of hair cells has been difficult, even though mammalians have sound perception of 20 kHz or higher. Here, we demonstrate that the magnetic force nanoprobe (MFN) has superb spatiotemporal capabilities to mechanically stimulate spatially-targeted individual hair cells with a temporal resolution of up to 9 μs, which is equivalent to approximately 50 kHz; therefore, it is possible to investigate avian hair cell biomechanics at different tonotopic regions of the cochlea covering a full hearing frequency range of 50 to 5000 Hz. We found that the variation of the stimulation frequency and amplitude of hair bundles creates distinct mechanical responsive features along the tonotopic axis, where the kinetics of the hair bundle recovery motion exhibits unique frequency-dependent characteristics: basal, middle, and apical hair bundles can effectively respond at their respective ranges of frequency. We revealed that such recovery kinetics possesses two different time constants that are closely related to the passive and active motilities of hair cells. The use of MFN is critical for the kinetics study of free-standing hair cells in a spatiotemporally distinct tonotopic organization.
Full Text
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01392
DOI
10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01392
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Anatomy (해부학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Ma, Ji Hyun(마지현) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7215-9040
Bok, Jin Woong(복진웅) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1958-1872
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/147108
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