Semicircular Canals Circumvent Brownian Motion Overload of Mechanoreceptor Hair Cells

Mees Muller, Kier Heeck and Coen P H Elemans

PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-15

Abstract: 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 (

Date: 2016
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