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SUBMITTER: Jiang T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5388538 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Tao T Kindt Katie K Wu Doris K DK
eLife 20170307
The asymmetric location of stereociliary bundle (hair bundle) on the apical surface of mechanosensory hair cells (HCs) dictates the direction in which a given HC can respond to cues such as sound, head movements, and water pressure. Notably, vestibular sensory organs of the inner ear, the maculae, exhibit a line of polarity reversal (LPR) across which, hair bundles are polarized in a mirror-image pattern. Similarly, HCs in neuromasts of the zebrafish lateral line system are generated as pairs, a ...[more]