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Hair Cells, Vestibular

"Hair Cells, Vestibular" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Sensory cells in the acoustic maculae with their apical STEREOCILIA embedded in a gelatinous OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE. These hair cells are stimulated by the movement of otolithic membrane, and impulses are transmitted via the VESTIBULAR NERVE to the BRAIN STEM. Hair cells in the saccule and those in the utricle sense linear acceleration in vertical and horizontal directions, respectively.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hair Cells, Vestibular" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Hair Cells, Vestibular" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 34 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2000 and 2012 and 2018 and 2019
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