Hair Cell/Neuron Interface in the Mouse Ear (IMAGE)

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Hair Cell/Neuron Interface in the Mouse Ear

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This microscope image of tissue from deep inside a normal mouse ear shows how ribbon synapses (red) form the connections between the hair cells of the inner ear (blue) and the tips of nerve cells (green) that connect to the brain.

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Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Mass. Eye and Ear

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