... of extracellular AG on ionic currents in mature HCI isolated from gerbil cristae. Whole-cell K + currents were elicited in voltage clamp using a standard protocol (fig. 1 a). Cells were held at -79 mV and given a hyperpolarizing step to -129 mV to deactivate the LVA K + current. Subsequent steps to membrane...

...Eri Naito; Vicente Honrubia; Yasushi Naito; Karl Beykirch; Arthur W. Toga; Larry Hoffman The topographic arrangement of vestibular nerve fibers innervating semicircular canal cristae of the chinchilla was studied using computer-aided video-microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction...

... observations at 6 h subsequent to injection revealed swollen afferent dendrites beneath type-I hair cells and the appearance of small vacuoles within the type-I hair cells; these changes were most pronounced in the crista ampullaris of the semicircular canals compared to the maculae of the utricle and saccule...