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Wendy H.Y. Cheng
Researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Publications - 1
Citations - 352
Wendy H.Y. Cheng is an academic researcher from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hair cell & Organ of Corti. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 314 citations.
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Prestin-based outer hair cell motility is necessary for mammalian cochlear amplification
Peter Dallos,Xudong Wu,Mary Ann Cheatham,Jiangang Gao,Jing Zheng,Charles T. Anderson,Shuping Jia,Xiang Wang,Wendy H.Y. Cheng,Soma Sengupta,David Z.Z. He,Jian Zuo +11 more
TL;DR: This work studies a mouse model without alteration to outer hair cell and organ of Corti mechanics or to mechanoelectric transduction, but with diminished prestin function, demonstrating that prestin-based electromotility is required for cochlear amplification.