General view of the outer hair cell and an element of the composite wall of the cell used for computational modeling. Continuum composite shell model of the outer hair cell wall.
Red lines correspond to the undeformed state.
Black lines correspond to the deformed state. Constant displacements along two of the rectangular unit sides determine the electromotile response on the unit and whole cell. The area around one of the particles is discretized with the finite element mesh. The area shaded in gray represents the projection of the radial pillar. Nanoscale model of the outer hair cell cytoskeleton.