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  2. Root hair - Wikipedia

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    When a new root hair cell grows, it excretes a hormone that inhibits the growth of root hairs in nearby cells. This ensures equal and efficient distribution of the actual hairs on these cells. [citation needed] Repotting or transplanting a plant can result in root hair cells being pulled off, perhaps to a significant extent, which can cause ...

  3. Hair cell - Wikipedia

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    In mammalian outer hair cells, the varying receptor potential is converted to active vibrations of the cell body. This mechanical response to electrical signals is termed somatic electromotility; [13] it drives variations in the cell's length, synchronized to the incoming sound signal, and provides mechanical amplification by feedback to the traveling wave.

  4. Hair follicle - Wikipedia

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    The papilla is a large structure at the base of the hair follicle. [4] The papilla is made up mainly of connective tissue and a capillary loop. Cell division in the papilla is either rare or non-existent. [contradictory] Around the papilla is the hair matrix. A root sheath composed of an external and

  5. Hair plexus - Wikipedia

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    They are mechanoreceptors conveying touch sensation with cell bodies located inside of either dorsal root ganglia or trigeminal root ganglia. [1] For most of the body (excluding the head and neck), crude touch and noxious stimuli from these receptors are further conveyed by the spinothalamic tract [ 2 ] whereas discriminative and light touch ...

  6. Rhizodermis - Wikipedia

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    Anatomy of a root tip. 3 is the rhizodermis. Rhizodermis is the root epidermis (also referred to as epiblem), the outermost primary cell layer of the root.. Specialized rhisodermal cells, trichoblasts, form long tubular structures (from 5 to 17 micrometers in diameter and from 80 micrometers to 1.5 millimeters in length) almost perpendicular to the main cell axis – root hairs that absorb ...

  7. Trichome - Wikipedia

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    Both trichomes and root hairs, the rhizoids of many vascular plants, are lateral outgrowths of a single cell of the epidermal layer. Root hairs form from trichoblasts, the hair-forming cells on the epidermis of a plant root. Root hairs vary between 5 and 17 micrometers in diameter, and 80 to 1,500 micrometers in length (Dittmar, cited in Esau ...

  8. Mechanoreceptor - Wikipedia

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    Hair follicle receptors called hair root plexuses sense when a hair changes position. Indeed, the most sensitive mechanoreceptors in humans are the hair cells in the cochlea of the inner ear (no relation to the follicular receptors – they are named for the hair-like mechanosensory stereocilia they possess); these receptors transduce sound for ...

  9. Inner root sheath - Wikipedia

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    The inner root sheath or internal root sheath of the hair follicle is located between the outer root sheath and the hair shaft. [1] It is made of three layers: Henle's layer, Huxley's layer, and the cuticle. [2] The inner root sheaf serves to protect growing hair. [3]