Alexandra L Scharr
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Scharr A, O Maoileidigh D, Ricci A
J Neurosci
. 2023 Feb;
43(12):2053-2074.
PMID: 36746628
The hair bundle is the universal mechanosensory organelle of auditory, vestibular, and lateral-line systems. A bundle comprises mechanically coupled stereocilia, whose displacements in response to stimulation activate a receptor current....
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Timon-Gomez A, Scharr A, Wong N, Ni E, Roy A, Liu M, et al.
Elife
. 2022 Oct;
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PMID: 36255054
Mammalian carotid body arterial chemoreceptors function as an early warning system for hypoxia, triggering acute life-saving arousal and cardiorespiratory reflexes. To serve this role, carotid body glomus cells are highly...
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Peng A, Scharr A, Caprara G, Nettles D, Steele C, Ricci A
Front Cell Dev Biol
. 2021 Sep;
9:725101.
PMID: 34513845
Hair cell mechanosensitivity resides in the sensory hair bundle, an apical protrusion of actin-filled stereocilia arranged in a staircase pattern. Hair bundle deflection activates mechano-electric transduction (MET) ion channels located...
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Effertz T, Scharr A, Ricci A
Pflugers Arch
. 2014 Sep;
467(1):73-84.
PMID: 25241775
Identification of the auditory hair cell mechano-electrical transduction (hcMET) channel has been a major focus in the hearing research field since the 1980s when direct mechanical gating of a transduction...
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Scharr A, Mooney T, Schweizer F, Ketten D
Biol Bull
. 2014 Sep;
227(1):51-60.
PMID: 25216502
Squid are a significant component of the marine biomass and are a long-established model organism in experimental neurophysiology. The squid statocyst senses linear and angular acceleration and is the best...