On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:26:35 +0100, CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler
<windle_c at informatik.fh-hamburg.de> wrote:
>Kalman Rubinson schrieb:
> >
> > OK but the fluid pressure change is a differential between the scala tympani
> > and the scala vestibuli which displaces the basilar membrane and all that it
> > bears. "Hairs in sticky pudding" is a new one on me.
> >
> > Kal
>>No,what I mean is that the individual sensor cells can slightly "inflate"
>more or less strong by an electro-osmotic effect controlled by the
>compensation circuits (similar like various narcotic gasses change the
>pressure in nerve cells) and thus set their operating point.
That, too, is a new one on me. Reference?
kal