Fluid kinetics of endolymph during calorization.
Various theories on the mechanism of caloric vestibular excitability are discussed and compared with our model, which involves two factors of endolymph movement: thermoconvection and fluid expansion. With this theory, caloric nystagmus in microgravity can be explained, as well as certain phenomena on earth, such as different vestibular responses depending on body position.
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ENT Clinic, University of Hamburg, FRG.
Limberg
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D004710:Endolymph / Q000502:physiology*; D006112:Gravitation; D006801:Humans; D007761:Labyrinthine Fluids / Q000502:physiology*; D011312:Pressure; D012212:Rheology; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth