Energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis of individual vestibular hair cells.
Microprobe analysis was performed at the cellular and subcellular levels of type I and type II vestibular hair cells. In principle the same types of elemental histograms were found in the two types of hair cells studied. High concentrations of Cl and K were detected in stereocilia, whereas calcium was found when analyzing stereocilia and the supranuclear cytoplasm.
D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000032:analysis; D002712:Chlorides / Q000032:analysis; D004577:Electron Probe Microanalysis; D006198:Hair Cells, Auditory / Q000032:analysis*; D006199:Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner / Q000032:analysis*; D051379:Mice; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D011188:Potassium / Q000032:analysis; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth / Q000032:analysis*
D002712:Chlorides; D011188:Potassium; D002118:Calcium