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Recent evidence has indicated that primary afferent neurons innervating a single semicircular canal can be subdivided into more than a single population on the basis of their dynamic response properties (6,11,14). Such variations in dynamic properties have been found to be correlated with neuronal variability (6,14), and thus indirectly with conduction velocity and axon diameter (7) or with the presumed anatomic locus in the crista of the receptors which the afferents innervate (2,11). It has been hypothesized that variations in first order afferent dynamic properties may be associated with their innervation patterns (5), or with local mechanical characteristics of the cupula near the innervated receptor cells (10).
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Tomko, D.L., O’Leary, D.P., Peterka, R.J. (1981). Analysis of Horizontal Canal Afferent Dynamics Using White Noise and Sinusoids in the Barbiturate Anesthetized Cat. In: Gualtierotti, T. (eds) The Vestibular System: Function and Morphology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5902-2_21
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