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Tip-link organization in anomalously-oriented hair cells of the guinea pig cochlea
S D Comis1, J O Pickles, M P Osborne
1Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Hearing Research
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
Stereocilia are described in a group of guinea pigs with abnormal conformation of the outer hair cell stereociliary bundles. Rows of stereocilia were found which were circular instead of V- or W-shaped, and rotated or even reversed in orientation with respect to normal. The stereocilia have however a normal gradation in heights of the rows of stereocilia, and have tip links running in the direction of gradation in height.