Sentences with phrase «sensory hair»

The changes in function were temporary, and there was no evidence of either a temporary or a permanent change in neural function or the function of sensory hair cells in the inner ear.

Just like in human ears, the delicate sensory hairs in the rat inner ear (shown above) can be damaged by loud noise, chemicals, and infection.

The human ear has about 16,000 sensory hair cells.

In the recessive deafness model, gene therapy with TMC1 restored the ability of sensory hair cells to respond to sound — producing a measurable electrical current — and also restored activity in the auditory portion of the brainstem.

Unaffected mice, at left, have sensory hair bundles organized in «V» formations with three rows of cilia (bottom left).

The researchers therefore examined the responses of single sensory hairs (sensilla) in different drosophilids to a large variety of ecologically relevant odors, including many leaf odors.

Experiments published in 2016 showed the plant counts how many times the victim touches sensory hairs on the outer surface of the trap, initially to confirm the catch is something that moves, and therefore edible.

Human inner ear organoid with sensory hair cells (cyan) and sensory neurons (yellow).

The researchers removed the organ of Corti, which is housed within a seashell - shaped cavity called the cochlea and contains sensory hair cells, from newborn mice and kept the cells alive in culture plates.

«When sensory hair cells in the ear die, they are not repopulated.

Based on previous studies, researchers have hypothesized that recreational noise exposure might damage the circuitry between sensory hair cells in the inner ear and their auditory nerve targets that deliver information to the brain.

Each appendage contains many sensory hairs, some of which function in gustation.

While female bedbugs try to hide previous matings from males in hopes of receiving more sperm, the males take matters into their own... well, penises, where sensory hairs detect whether the female they're grasping has had a previous tryst.

When the head rotates, inertial drag of endolymph within the duct acts upon sensory hair cells that modulate the firing rates of primary vestibular afferent neurons.

«Single Sensillum Recording,» a method which measures the response of single sensory hairs to certain odors, revealed that the proboscis sensillum responds to floral volatiles.

Sensory hair cells in the cochlea of a Beethoven mouse treated with TMC2 gene therapy.

CIB2, which is short for calcium and integrin - binding protein 2, is essential for the structure of stereocilia, the structures at the top of the sensory hair cells in the inner ear.

As a result, the sensory hair cell bundles that receive sound and signal the brain deteriorate and become disorganized, leading to profound hearing loss.

Sensory hair cells in the inner ear contain tiny projections called microvilli, each with a channel at its tip formed by TMC1 and TMC2 proteins.

In the inner ear of vertebrates, the balance system consists of three semicircular canals that contain fluid and sensory hair cells that detect movement of the head.

When the head accelerates or decelerates, they bend the sensory hair cells and send a signal to the brain telling it which way is up.

When scrutinizing electron microscopic images of the tip of the proboscis, the researchers discovered a sensillum, a sensory hair previously unknown in Manduca sexta.

The Venus» flytrap counts the number of times prey comes in contact with its sensory hairs to determine the size of the hapless insect, when to shut its leaves to trap the creature, and even how much digestive juice to produce for its meal.

The mechanism is simple, but strikingly reminiscent of what's going on in the brains of animals: Touching the sensory hairs fires electrical messages, or «action potentials» — known as nerve impulses in animals.

Implantable prostheses designed to deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve hold considerable promise for people with a type of deafness in which the sensory hair cells of the inner ear are damaged

«A lot of genes will find various things to do, but otoferlin seems only to have one purpose and that is to encode sound in the sensory hair cells in the inner ear.