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Some people also suffer severe dizziness because otoliths have become dislodged from their utriculus (e.g. When the hair cells send messages that are incongruent with what the eyes are seeing and our body is feeling, as may occur in a boat or aircraft during rough weather, motion sickness can result. This stimulates the hair cells to send impulses back to the brain. Whenever the head is moved, the fluid within the canals lags in its motion so that there is relative motion between the walls and the endolymph. There is a small chamber at one end of each canal containing hair cells. Motion of the body is detected in the three semicircular canals at the top of each inner ear, each one oriented in a different plane. The action potentials initiated in the hair cells are sent back to the brain. As the head is oriented in different directions, these ear stones or otoliths shift their position. On their inner surface are patches of hair cells to which are attached thousands of tiny spheres of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3). Just above the cochlea are two interconnecting chambers filled with endolymph, the sacculus and utriculus.

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Mutations in the K + channels (shown in lavender) that allow for the facilitated diffusion of K + out of the secretory cells and into the endolymph. Mutations in the sodium-potassium-chloride cotransporter (shown in yellow) that actively transports K + against its concentration gradient into the secretory cells. (These same channels are found in the loops of Henle in the kidneys so the mutations can produce defects in kidney function as well as deafness.) Mutations in the connexins ( magenta) that form the gap junctions through which the K + passes from cell to cell on its way back to the secretory cells that will deposit it back in the endolymph. Mutations in genes encoding the K + channels that allows K + to leave the hair cell through its basolateral surface (shown in green ). Scores of mutations in the necessary transport molecules have been linked to inherited deafness. The potassium that enters the hair cells must be removed from them and recycled back to the endolymph for hearing to continue. Mutations in the myosin VIIA gene and mutations in the gene encoding cadherin 23. Mutations in the gene encoding a protein that helps with actin polymerization cause deafness. The proper organization of the stereocilia involves actin, a form of myosin (called myosin VIIA), and cadherins.also cause deafness. Mutations in a transcription factor have been associated with a stirrup (stapes) that cannot move freely and thus cannot transmit vibrations to the oval window. Literally scores of genes have been identified in recent years whose mutant versions result in hearing loss. As the years go by, many of us (~16%) suffer a progressive loss of hearing because of genetic defects. Detection of a given frequency is a function of the location of the hair cells along the organ of Corti with the highest frequencies detected near the base of the cochlea, and the remainder of the sound spectrum detected in a progressive fashion with the lowest frequencies detected by hair cells near the tip.Ībout 1 newborn in a thousand is born deaf because of a genetic defect.

Many people, especially when young, can hear sounds with frequencies (pitches) from as low as 16 to as high as 20,000 hertz (cycles per second). These impulses travel back along the auditory nerve (the 8th cranial nerve) to the brain. Depolarization of the hair cell causes the release of a neurotransmitter (probably glutamate) at its basal surface and the initiation of nerve impulses in a sensory neuron that synapses with it. You should note that hair cells differ from most "excitable cells" (neurons and muscle fibers) in their use of potassium ions, not sodium ions, to depolarize the cell. The influx of K + from the endolymph depolarizes the cell.

This moves stereocilia at the tips of the hair cells against the tectorial membrane and open potassium channels in them. Vibrations of the endolymph cause vibrations of the basilar membrane. The hair cells are located between the basilar and tectorial membranes. Stereocilia are not built from the "9+2" arrangement of microtubules that are found in true cilia. The apical surface of the hair cells contains an array of stereocilia, which give the hair cells their name. It contains thousands of hair cells, which are the actual vibration receptors. The organ of Corti lies within the middle chamber of the cochlea.