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SUBMITTER: Bullen A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4510854 | biostudies-other | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bullen Anwen A West Timothy T Moores Carolyn C Ashmore Jonathan J Fleck Roland A RA MacLellan-Gibson Kirsty K Forge Andrew A
Journal of cell science 20150604 14
The ways in which cell architecture is modelled to meet cell function is a poorly understood facet of cell biology. To address this question, we have studied the cytoarchitecture of a cell with highly specialised organisation, the cochlear inner hair cell (IHC), using multiple hierarchies of three-dimensional (3D) electron microscopy analyses. We show that synaptic terminal distribution on the IHC surface correlates with cell shape, and the distribution of a highly organised network of membranes ...[more]