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Hair cell tufts and afferent innervation of the bullfrog crista ampullarisWithin the bullfrog semicircular canal crista, hair cell tuft types were defined and mapped with the aid of scanning electron microscopy. Dye-filled planar afferent axons had mean distal axonal diameters of 1.6-4.9 microns, highly branched arbors, and contacted 11-24 hair cells. Dye-filled isthmus afferent axons had mean distal axonal diameters of 1.8-7.9 microns, with either small or large field arbors contacting 4-9 or 25-31 hair cells. The estimated mean number of contacts per innervated hair cell was 2.2 for planar and 1.3 for isthmus afferent neurons. Data on evoked afferent responses were available only for isthmus units that were observed to respond to our microrotational stimuli. Of 21 such afferent neurons, eight were successfully dye-filled. Within this sample, high-gain units had large field arbors and lower-gain units had small field arbors. The sensitivity of each afferent neuron was analyzed in terms of noise equivalent input (NEI), the stimulus amplitude for which the afferent response amplitude is just equivalent to the rms deviation of the instantaneous spike rate. NEI for isthmus units varied from 0.63 to 8.2 deg/s; the mean was 3.2 deg/s.
Document ID
19930060934
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Myers, Steven F.
(Wayne State Univ. Detroit, MI, United States)
Lewis, Edwin R.
(California Univ. Berkeley, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: Brain Research
ISSN: 0006-8993
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Accession Number
93A44931
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG2-448
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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