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Semicircular Canals Circumvent Brownian Motion Overload of Mechanoreceptor Hair Cells

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  • Mees Muller
  • Kier Heeck
  • Coen P H Elemans

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Vertebrate semicircular canals (SCC) first appeared in the vertebrates (i.e. ancestral fish) over 600 million years ago. In SCC the principal mechanoreceptors are hair cells, which as compared to cochlear hair cells are distinctly longer (70 vs. 7 μm), 10 times more compliant to bending (44 vs. 500 nN/m), and have a 100-fold higher tip displacement threshold (

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  • Mees Muller & Kier Heeck & Coen P H Elemans, 2016. "Semicircular Canals Circumvent Brownian Motion Overload of Mechanoreceptor Hair Cells," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-15, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0159427
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159427
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    1. Ching Kung, 2005. "A possible unifying principle for mechanosensation," Nature, Nature, vol. 436(7051), pages 647-654, August.
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