CORE--COMPUTER AND PERIPHERALS

在这个项目中，我们将寻求解决分歧的根源， 从毛细胞和壶腹的紧张性和相位性反应输出 前庭系统 具体来说，我们将确定 编码的前庭输出可归因于：（1）杯状运动， 毛细胞静纤毛偏转的区域性变化;（2）传入 差异（数字和/或区域）受 毛细胞;和/或（3）传入神经可能对毛细胞的反应不同。 发射器量子 这将通过一个协调的 包括数字视频成像图像的跨学科努力 分析、详细的电生理记录和动力学模拟 在整个项目申请过程中描述的研究。 银的 实验室将专注于获取和分析图像， 头部移位期间的静纤毛和杯状运动， 建立了一种数字视频光学显微镜方法， 观察、分析和关联亚细胞、细胞 前庭终末器官（VEO）相关的超细胞结构 前庭功能，使用蟾鱼（Opsanus tau）迷路作为 模型系统，Reeves的团队将专注于高级分析 成像方法 VEO性能的高质量图像 建立结构-功能关系 这些基本的机电转换器，特别是在光 合作实验室在毛细胞方面的进展 这些换能器的电生理学和计算位移 缺乏在实际实验期间在线获得的。 最近， 银，在合作与海斯坦，完成了直接视频光 可录像观察记录的显微成像显微镜 在原位的静纤毛和杯状运动与并发 电生理记录;（2）描述亚微米 这些结构在VEO运动期间的位移，通过计算 图像数据的表示（即，经过处理的图像、等值面和 等体积），以帮助测试实际 VEO运动（这项工作），电生理性能（海斯坦 和波义耳）和动力学模拟（兔子，米勒）。 融合 开发的信息将有助于评估正常和 在正常和微重力环境中，VEO的性能不正常。

In this project we will seek to resolve the origin of differences in tonic and phasic response output from the hair cell and cupula of the vestibular system. Specifically, we will determine if differences in encoded vestibular output is attributable to: (1) cupular motion and regional variation in hair cell stereociliary deflection; (2) afferents that are differentially (numerically and/or regionally) innervated by hair cells; and/or (3) that afferents may respond differentially to a transmitter quantum. This will be accomplished through a coordinated interdisciplinary effort encompassing digital video imaging image analysis, detailed electrophysiological recording and kinetic simulation studies described throughout this program project application. Silver's laboratory will focus upon the acquisition and analysis of images of stereociliary and cupular movements during head displacement, by developing a digital video light microscopic method for directly observation, analysis and relating movements of sub-cellular, cellular and supra-cellular structures in the vestibular end organ (VEO) related with vestibular function, using the toadfish (Opsanus tau) labyrinth as the model system, Reeves' group will focus upon advanced analytical imaging methods. High quality imagery of the performance of VEO components is needed to establish the structure- function relationships of these essential mechano-electrical transducers, especially in light of the advances made by the collaborating laboratories in hair cell electrophysiology and computational displacements of these transducers obtained on-line during an actual experiment is lacking. Recently, Silver, in collaboration with Highstein, accomplished direct video light microscopic imaging microscope capable of video observation and recording of stereociliary and cupular movements in situ in concert with concurrent electrophysiological recordings; (2) describe the sub-micrometer displacements of these structures during VEO movements via computational representations of image data (i.e., processed imagery, isosurfaces and isovolume) to aid in testing for the parity correspondence among actual VEO movements (this work), electrophysiological performance (Highstein and Boyle) and kinetic simulations (Rabbit, Miller). Integration of the information developed will facilitate assessment of normal and dysfunctional VEO performance in normal, and microgravity environments.