The presence of two types of hair cells ... anatomical investigation which revealed that most of the nerve fibers that carry information to the brain contact only the inner hair cells. This meant that ...

There are five sensory epithelia in the balance portion of the inner ear (one for each of the three semicircular canals and two in a chamber where the three canals come together). The nerve fibers ...

Albers would like to know how these tunnels entwine with skin cells as they migrate from the base layer to the skin surface. She also wondered if nerve fibers tunnel into other cell types found ...

The cochlea uses sensory hair cells to detect sound waves ... the nerves carrying information from the inner ear to the brain ...

The nervous system is comprised of two primary cell types: neurons and glial cells ... the action potential in myelinated nerve fibers jumps from one node to the next. This mode of travel by ...