Dictionary » H » Hair cells

Hair cells

Hair cells

mechanoreceptors located in the organ of corti that are sensitive to auditory stimuli and in the vestibular apparatus that are sensitive to movement of the head. in each case the accessory sensory structures are arranged so that appropriate stimuli cause movement of the hair-like projections (stereocilia and kinocilia) which relay the information centrally in the nervous system.


Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page



Results from our forum


Why do you keep talking about species

... 100,000+ Cnidaria Stinging nettle Coelenterates Nematocysts (stinging cells) about 11,000 Ctenophora Comb bearer Comb jellies Eight "comb ... anus Goblet worm Anus inside ring of cilia about 150 Gastrotricha Hair stomach Meiofauna Two terminal adhesive tubes about 690 Gnathostomulida ...

See entire post
by gamila
Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:35 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why do you keep talking about species
Replies: 20
Views: 585

Future Human Evolution

... bug-eyed moms will still love that all the same. We also prefer less hair where it doesn't seem to do much good anyway so we have that conscious ... production to produce smaller but still as functional size brain cells to fit the brain space of an island morphology we might possibly be ...

See entire post
by GaryGaulin
Sat May 02, 2009 9:21 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
Replies: 41
Views: 5631

Mosaic Phenotype or what?

Some times cells in an embryo don't properly distribute chromosomes - one daughter cell gets three chromosomes (including both copies carrying the brown hair), and one gets just one (with the red hair). It's very unusual to get as general a distribution ...

See entire post
by Darby
Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:32 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Mosaic Phenotype or what?
Replies: 3
Views: 301

Re:

... the day you manage to prove that cancer, alzheimer's, squint and bad hair day are all caused by nanotechnology, you really get to say "neener" ... technological pathogens have been proven to be destroying red blood cells that contain the majority of iron in the body,the link isnt between ...

See entire post
by vincio
Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:23 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Important unknown nanotech within humans
Replies: 28
Views: 6303

help on plant cells urgently please!!!!!!

well my plant physiology is a bit rusty, but I am sure that guard cells and root hair cells develop from epidermal cells (of leaf and root respectively). Can't help on palisade ...

See entire post
by MrMistery
Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:58 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: help on plant cells urgently please!!!!!!
Replies: 1
Views: 437
View all matching forum results

This page was last modified 10:19, 19 April 2007. This page has been accessed 755 times. 
What links here | Related changes | Permanent link