• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.218-225
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• 2013

In this paper hair bundle feature model and integration method for hair cell models were proposed. The proposed hair bundle feature model was based on spring-damper-mass model. Input of integrated vestibular hair cell model was frequency and output was interspike interval of hair cell that was reflected the feature of hair bundles. Irregular afferents that had a great gain variation showed reduction of negative stiffness section. Regular afferents that had a small gain variation, however, showed same feature with base negative stiffness feature. As a result, integrated vestibular hair cell model showed almost the same modeling data with experimental data in the modeled eleven frequency bands. It is verified that the proposed model is a good model for hair bundle feature modeling.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2005

Loud click or tone burst sound can activate vestibular receptor and evoke reflex changes in tonic electromyographic activity within the stenocleidomastoid muscles. This reflex is assumed to originate in the saccule, the afferent pathways being the inferior vestibular nerve, and the efferent pathways the vestibulospinal tract. Averaging these muscular responses allows vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) to be obtained. The earliest response ipsilateral to a loud click, p13n23, is dependent upon vestibular activation, specifically saccular afferents. These new techniques are beginning to be applied clinically in the patient of vestibular neuritis, Meniere's disease, acoustic neuromas, Tullio phenomenon, etc. VEMP recording will provide both a straightforward non-invasive exploration of each vestibule independently and an attractive method by which to explore otolithic receptors and vestibulospinal pathways.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.19-24
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• 1970

Since the discovery of the muscle spindle by Hassall (1831), an intensive studies of its anatomical and physiological characteristics had been undertaken. Recent morphological studies of Boyd (1962) demonstrated that the muscle spindles have two different intrafusal muscle fibers, nuclear bag and nuclear chain fiber, and these intrafusal fibers are under independent motor innervation by ${\gamma}_1$ and ${\gamma}_2$ motor neurone. Neurophysiological studies of Hunt and Kuffler (1951) showed regulatory effect of ${\gamma}$ motor neurone upon the excitability of the spindle afferents. Harvey and Mathews (1961) observed the dynamic and static characteristics of the two different spindle afferents, the primary and secondary ending. Furthermore, Mathews (1962) postulated the functional existance of two kind of ${\gamma}$ motor neurones, namely, the dynamic and static fusimotor fiber. Recent report of Kim and Partridge(1969) pointed out that the descending vestibular signals had increased the slope of the length-tension relationship in stretch reflex; Kim (1967) demonstrated that the descending vestibular impulses act upon the stretch reflex loop through the ${\gamma}$ motor pathway. These experimental evidences from the morphological and neurophysiological studies on the muscle spindles support the concept that the stretch reflex action of the skeletal muscle operates as a negative feedback control system. The author had discussed the way by which the f system participates in the control of stretch relfex feed back system. that was taken for a prototype of posture and movement.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.190-199
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 섬모 번들 특성 모델과 통합 전정 유모세포 모델을 제안한다. 기존 전정기관 모델에 관한 연구는 외력이 없는 상태에서 전정 유모세포의 섬모 번들이 가지는 특성이나 시냅스에서 발생하는 활동전위만을 대상으로 진행되었으며 섬모번들의 고유 특성을 고려한 전정신경의 활동전위에 대한 연구는 이루어지지 않았다. 제안된 통합 전정 유모세포 모델은 외력을 반영하였고 서로 다른 규칙성을 가진 유모세포에 대해 각각의 섬모번들의 반강성 특성을 고려하였고 이를 기존의 외력없는 모델과 비교하였다. 그 결과 외부 자극의 변화에 따른 주파수 변화가 큰 불규칙적 신경섬유와 중간규칙적 신경섬유에서는 반강성 구간의 감소를 보였으나 그렇지 않은 규칙적 신경섬유에서는 기존의 반강성 특성과 유사한 특성을 보여주었다. 또한 제안된 전정 유모세포 모델을 통해 11개의 주파수 대역에서의 모델링 데이터와 기존의 동물 실험 데이터가 거의 일치함을 보여 주었다. 제안된 섬모 번들 특성 모델이 적절히 모델링되었음이 확인된다.