What can we say about ear hair besides it’s a fact of life. You may not have ever noticed your ear hair, in which case you’re lucky. Ear hair is the type of thing you don’t notice until you do—and ...

These observations suggest that the movement of stereocilia and the resulting modulation of their ionic currents is likely to be greater for outer hair cells than for inner hair cells. Several studies ...

The stereocilia of all hair cells are stiff because of an abundance of one of these cytoskeletal proteins. All hair cells except the outer hair cell also have the cell spanning cytoskeleton throughout ...