Instituto de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Instituto de Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular "Dr. Héctor N. Torres" (CONICET), CA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
EMBO J. 2021 Mar 1;40(5):e107531. doi: 10.15252/embj.2020107531. Epub 2021 Feb 8.
Humans can recognize differences in sound intensity of up to 6 orders of magnitude. However, it is not clear how this is achieved and what enables our auditory systems to encode such a gradient. Özçete & Moser (2021) report in this issue that the key to this lies in the synaptic heterogeneity within individual sensory cells in the inner ear.
人类可以识别高达 6 个数量级的声音强度差异。然而,目前尚不清楚这是如何实现的,以及我们的听觉系统如何对这种梯度进行编码。Özçete 和 Moser(2021)在本期杂志中报道,关键在于内耳单个感觉细胞内的突触异质性。