A Reversal in Hair Cell Orientation Organizes Both the Auditory and Vestibular Organs
Sensory hair cells detect mechanical stimuli with their hair bundle, an asymmetrical brush of actin-based membrane protrusions, or stereocilia. At the single cell level, stereocilia are organized in rows of graded heights that confer the hair bundle with
Basile Tarchini +2 more
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Compartmentalized and signal-selective gap junctional coupling in the hearing cochlea [PDF]
Gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) plays a major role in cochlear function. Recent evidence suggests that connexin 26 (Cx26) and Cx30 are the major constituent proteins of cochlear gap junction channels, possibly in a unique heteromeric ...
Forge, A, Jagger, DJ
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Transmission Disrupted: Modeling Auditory Synaptopathy in Zebrafish
Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common form of hearing loss in humans, and results from either dysfunction in hair cells, the sensory receptors of sound, or the neurons that innervate hair cells.
Katie S. Kindt, Lavinia Sheets
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Selective deletion of cochlear hair cells causes rapid age-dependent changes in spiral ganglion and cochlear nucleus neurons [PDF]
During nervous system development, critical periods are usually defined as early periods during which manipulations dramatically change neuronal structure or function, whereas the same manipulations in mature animals have little or no effect on the same ...
Hume, Clifford +8 more
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Differentiation of mammalian vestibular hair cells from conditionally immortal, postnatal supporting cells [PDF]
We provide evidence from a newly established, conditionally immortal cell line (UB/UE-1) that vestibular supporting cells from the mammalian inner ear can differentiate postnatally into more than one variant of hair cell.
Holley, M.C. +4 more
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SNARE VTI13 plays a unique role in endosomal trafficking pathways associated with the vacuole and is essential for cell wall organization and root hair growth in arabidopsis [PDF]
Background and Aims: Root hairs are responsible for water and nutrient uptake from the soil and their growth is responsive to biotic and abiotic changes in their environment.
Domozych, David S. +2 more
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A "synaptoplasmic cistern" mediates rapid inhibition of cochlear hair cells [PDF]
Cochlear hair cells are inhibited by cholinergic efferent neurons. The acetylcholine (ACh) receptor of the hair cell is a ligand-gated cation channel through which calcium enters to activate potassium channels and hyperpolarize the cell.
Fuchs, Paul A. +7 more
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A Novel Antigen Sensitive to Calcium Chelation That is Associated with the Tip Links and Kinocilial Links of Sensory Hair Bundles [PDF]
Tip links are extracellular, cell-surface-associated filaments of unknown molecular composition that are thought to gate the mechanotransducer channel of the sensory hair cell.
Goodyear, Richard J, Richardson, Guy P
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Transmitter release from cochlear hair cells is phase locked to cyclic stimuli of different intensities and frequencies [PDF]
The auditory system processes time and intensity through separate brainstem pathways to derive spatial location as well as other salient features of sound.
Goutman, Juan Diego
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Advances in stem cell-based therapy for hair loss [PDF]
Hair loss is a quite common condition observed in both men and women. Pattern hair loss also known as androgenetic alopecia is the most common form of hair loss that is thought to affect up to 80% of Caucasian men and up to 40% of Caucasian women by age ...
A. Egger, M. Tomic-Canic, A. Tosti
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