RESEARCH ARTICLE
Semicircular Canals Circumvent Brownian Motion Overload of Mechanoreceptor Hair Cells Mees Muller1¤*, Kier Heeck2, Coen P. H. Elemans3 1 Experimental Zoology Group, Wageningen University, 6709 PG Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2 Leiden University, Dept. of Physics, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands, 3 Sound Communication Group, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark ¤ Current address: Physical Biology Institute, Ulica Bor 56, 4750 Momchilovtsi, Bulgaria * [email protected]
Abstract a11111
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Muller M, Heeck K, Elemans CPH (2016) Semicircular Canals Circumvent Brownian Motion Overload of Mechanoreceptor Hair Cells. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0159427. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159427 Editor: Jacob Engelmann, Universität Bielefeld, GERMANY Received: February 15, 2016
Vertebrate semicircular canals (SCC) first appeared in the vertebrates (i.e. ancestral fish) over 600 million years ago. In SCC the principal mechanoreceptors are hair cells, which as compared to cochlear hair cells are distinctly longer (70 vs. 7 μm), 10 times more compliant to bending (44 vs. 500 nN/m), and have a 100-fold higher tip displacement threshold (< 10 μm vs.
Semicircular Canals Circumvent Brownian Motion Overload of Mechanoreceptor Hair Cells Mees Muller1¤*, Kier Heeck2, Coen P. H. Elemans3 1 Experimental Zoology Group, Wageningen University, 6709 PG Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2 Leiden University, Dept. of Physics, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands, 3 Sound Communication Group, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark ¤ Current address: Physical Biology Institute, Ulica Bor 56, 4750 Momchilovtsi, Bulgaria * [email protected]
Abstract a11111
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Muller M, Heeck K, Elemans CPH (2016) Semicircular Canals Circumvent Brownian Motion Overload of Mechanoreceptor Hair Cells. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0159427. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159427 Editor: Jacob Engelmann, Universität Bielefeld, GERMANY Received: February 15, 2016
Vertebrate semicircular canals (SCC) first appeared in the vertebrates (i.e. ancestral fish) over 600 million years ago. In SCC the principal mechanoreceptors are hair cells, which as compared to cochlear hair cells are distinctly longer (70 vs. 7 μm), 10 times more compliant to bending (44 vs. 500 nN/m), and have a 100-fold higher tip displacement threshold (< 10 μm vs.
