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Hair cells are the sensory receptors in the organs of the vertebrate internal ear and in the lateral-line organ. They provide sensitivity to the broad range of stimuli to which these acousti-colateralis organs are responsive: air- and water-borne sound, substrate vibration, water motion, and angular and linear acceleration, especially that due to gravity. Hair cells are of particular importance to humans because a sensitive vestibular apparatus is required for our upright, bipedal mode of locomotion and because a sense of hearing is of paramount importance in our verbal communication.
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Corey DP, Hudspeth AJ (1983): Kinetics of the receptor current in bullfrog saccular hair cells. J Neurosci 3:962–976
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Hudspeth, A.J. (1988). Hair Cells, Sensory Transduction. In: Sensory Systems: II. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6760-4_13
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