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SUBMITTER: Vyas P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6447598 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vyas Pankhuri P Wu Jingjing Sherry JS Jimenez Adrian A Glowatzki Elisabeth E Fuchs Paul Albert PA
Scientific reports 20190403 1
The cochlea is innervated by type I and type II afferent neurons. Type I afferents are myelinated, larger diameter neurons that send a single dendrite to contact a single inner hair cell, whereas unmyelinated type II afferents are fewer in number and receive input from many outer hair cells. This strikingly differentiated innervation pattern strongly suggests specialized functions. Those functions could be investigated with specific genetic markers that enable labeling and manipulating each affe ...[more]