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Opposing roles for Bmp signalling during the development of electrosensory lateral line organs [PDF]
eLifeThe lateral line system enables fishes and aquatic-stage amphibians to detect local water movement via mechanosensory hair cells in neuromasts, and many species to detect weak electric fields via electroreceptors (modified hair cells) in ampullary organs.
Alexander S Campbell +7 more
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Atoh1 is required for the formation of lateral line electroreceptors and hair cells, whereas FoxG1 represses an electrosensory fate [PDF]
eLifeIn electroreceptive jawed fishes and amphibians, individual lateral line placodes form lines of neuromasts on the head containing mechanosensory hair cells, flanked by fields of ampullary organs containing electroreceptors—modified hair cells that ...
Martin Minařík +7 more
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A Highly Sensitive Deep-Sea Hydrodynamic Pressure Sensor Inspired by Fish Lateral Line [PDF]
BiomimeticsHydrodynamic pressure sensors offer an auxiliary approach for ocean exploration by unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). However, existing hydrodynamic pressure sensors often lack the ability to monitor subtle hydrodynamic stimuli in deep-sea environments.
Xiaohe Hu +6 more
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Sensing in the dark: Constructive evolution of the lateral line system in blind populations of Astyanax mexicanus [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionCave‐adapted animals evolve a suite of regressive and constructive traits that allow survival in the dark. Most studies aiming at understanding cave animal evolution have focused on the genetics and environmental underpinnings of regressive traits, with ...
Roberto Rodríguez‐Morales
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Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2020 Hair cells sense and transmit auditory, vestibular, and hydrodynamic information by converting mechanical stimuli into electrical signals. This process of mechano-electrical transduction (MET) requires a mechanically gated channel localized in the apical
Timothy Erickson +5 more
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Evolutionary convergence of a neural mechanism in the cavefish lateral line system
eLife, 2022 Animals can evolve dramatic sensory functions in response to environmental constraints, but little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying these changes.
Elias T Lunsford +3 more
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Neural stem cells induce the formation of their physical niche during organogenesis
eLife, 2017 Most organs rely on stem cells to maintain homeostasis during post-embryonic life. Typically, stem cells of independent lineages work coordinately within mature organs to ensure proper ratios of cell types.
Ali Seleit +7 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 Vertebrate hair cell (HC) systems are innervated by efferent fibers that modulate their response to external stimuli. In mammals, the best studied efferent-HC synapse, the cholinergic medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferent system, makes direct synaptic ...
Paola V. Plazas, Ana Belén Elgoyhen
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eLife, 2018 Mitochondria play a prominent role in mechanosensory hair cell damage and death. Although hair cells are thought to be energetically demanding cells, how mitochondria respond to these demands and how this might relate to cell death is largely unexplored.
Sarah B Pickett +6 more
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eLife, 2022 Sensory hair cells receive near constant stimulation by omnipresent auditory and vestibular stimuli. To detect and encode these stimuli, hair cells require steady ATP production, which can be accompanied by a buildup of mitochondrial byproducts called ...
Daria Lukasz, Alisha Beirl, Katie Kindt
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