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The work outlined herein was designed to investigate the micromechanics of sensory hair bundles and to identify the responsible structural components at the ultrastructural and molecular level. Our reason for interest stems from the fact that very little is known about the first step in the excita tion of sensory hair cells in the vestibular system: that of the mechanical properties and action of the sensory hairs and their substructures.
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Flock, Å. (1981). Mechanical Properties of Sensory Hairs in the Semicircular Canal Crista. In: Gualtierotti, T. (eds) The Vestibular System: Function and Morphology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5902-2_15
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