The cellular microenvironment is remarkably complex. In the small space near each cell, growth factors are liberated from extracellular matrix, cytokines are secreted from neighboring cells, and hormones arrive from distant ...

The innate immune system is the first line of host defense, and its ability to propagate antimicrobial and inflammatory signals from the cellular microenvironment to the tissue at-large is critical for survival. In a ...

Clinical voice specialists make critical diagnostic, medical, therapeutic, and surgical decisions by coupling visual observations of vocal fold tissue motion with auditory-perceptual assessments of voice quality. The details ...

The ability to form auditory objects is important in the natural environment where sounds arriving at our ears are a resultant of all spectro-temporal components that may have arisen from different auditory events. It has ...

The anterior thalamus and hippocampus are part of an extended network of brain structures underlying cognitive functions such as episodic memory and spatial navigation. Earlier work in rodents has demonstrated that hippocampal ...

Healthy ears generate sounds known as otoacoustic emissions that can be evoked and measured in the ear-canal using small, low-noise microphones. The ability to measure acoustic signals that originate within the cochlea ...