Synaptically silent sensory hair cells in zebrafish are recruited after damage

Hair cells of the inner ear are mechanosensors that detect sound, and synapse onto afferent neurons. Here, the authors used calcium imaging to find that not all hair cells are synaptically engaged, but after damage these silent cells are synaptically engaged.

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Main Authors: Qiuxiang Zhang, Suna Li, Hiu-Tung C. Wong, Xinyi J. He, Alisha Beirl, Ronald S. Petralia, Ya-Xian Wang, Katie S. Kindt
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/04a8421191c84c0aba18c711abc59334
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