June 2017. The Journal of Neuroscience. Cover Article!

Lavinia Sheets, Xinyi J. He, Jennifer Olt, Mary Schreck, Ronald S. Petralia, Ya-Xian Wang, Qiuxiang Zhang, Alisha Beirl, Teresa Nicolson, Walter Marcotti, Josef G. Trapani and Katie S. Kindt

JNeurosci Image.jpg Our study reveals that hair-cell ribbon enlargement results in increased calcium signals, yet reduces spontaneous activity and disrupts the timing of auditory and vestibular encoding.

 

 

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