Sentences with phrase «apical plasma membrane»

In all cases, sinusoidal fluid - jet stimuli from different orientations suggested the underlying channels were opened not directly by deflections of the hair bundle but by deformation of the apical plasma membrane.

High - speed Ca2 + imaging, using swept - field confocal microscopy, showed the Ca2 + influx through the reverse - polarity channels was not localized to the hair bundle, but distributed across the apical plasma membrane.