Hair Cells I

This video describes how hair cells work to help us hear sound.

This video is from:
Essential Cell Biology, 3rd Edition
Alberts, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, Lewis, Raff, Roberts, & Walter
ISBN: 978-0-8153-4129-1

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hair
• cells
• cell
• biology
• neuroscience
• neurobiology
• garland
• science
• garlandscience

[Ramin325]

@skalkmaster you're thinking of the otolith; vestibular system

[MsTeachie]

Is this right? I thought that the inner hair cells do not touch the tectorial membrane. They're stimulated by the endolymph fluid around them. Right?

[grn4pp1etree]

The transduction channel which is mechanically gated by the pulling of the linking filament (or tip-link) is found on the shorter of the two stereocilia. The tallest cilia of a hair bundle is called the kinocilia and doesnt have a channel to be opened.

[freyajean]

0:27 supercharged

[Billiesuesue]

really helpful thanks!

[solidus6989]

the human body is very structual and very complicated thing so many different ways it works and i dont know im speechless at this point lol but from i learned a while back the human body is also like a battery kinda strange

[nlaugesen]

Well, it is an animation from the 'Albert's for children' (the Essential) and you could add loads of information to it, but it keeps and simple and I found it very good.

[skalkmaster]

Pretty good but some things are wrong. The longest cilia is a kinocilia and the shorter ones (stereocilia) are opend by it...

[Niamhie07]

really helpful, thank you

[zipperears88]

Very helpful! Thanks :D