Mechanoelectrical transduction by hair cells of the bullfrog's sacculus.
Hair cells of the internal ear respond to excitatory mechanical stimulation of their hair bundles by the rapid opening of poorly cation-selective transduction channels. These channels, which are located near the bundles' tips, may be gated by forces applied through elastic linkages between adjacent stereocilia.
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D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D006198:Hair Cells, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000502:physiology*; D011892:Rana catesbeiana / Q000502:physiology*; D012444:Saccule and Utricle / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction