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Microprobe analysis was performed at the cellular and subcellular levels of type I and type II vestibular hair cells. In principle the same types of elemental histograms were found in the two types of hair cells studied. High concentrations of Cl and K were detected in stereocilia, whereas calcium was found when analyzing stereocilia and the supranuclear cytoplasm.
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Supported by grants from the Swedish Medical Research Council (12X-720 and 12X-7305), the Swedish Society for Medical Sciences, the Foundation Tysta Skolan, and the Ragnar and Torsten Söderberg Foundation
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Anniko, M., Lim, D. & Wróblewski, R. Energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis of individual yestibular hair cells. Arch Otorhinolaryngol 242, 161–166 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00454416
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