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  2. Inner ear regeneration - Wikipedia

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    Hair cells are only regenerated after damage. [21] Hair cells in chicks are regenerated just three days after damage is inflicted, and the hair cells fully recover within 30 days. [22] Supporting cells begin to replicate and form hair cells within 18–24 hours after damage, and this process peaks in 2–3 days. [23]

  3. Hair cell - Wikipedia

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    Mammalian cochlear hair cells are of two anatomically and functionally distinct types, known as outer, and inner hair cells. Damage to these hair cells results in decreased hearing sensitivity, and because the inner ear hair cells cannot regenerate, this damage is permanent. [4]

  4. Stereocilia (inner ear) - Wikipedia

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    Stereocilia (along with the entirety of the hair cell) in mammals can be damaged or destroyed by excessive loud noises, disease, medications, as well as toxins and are not regenerable. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] Environmental noise induced hearing impairment is probably the most prevalent noise health effect according to the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

  5. Organ of Corti - Wikipedia

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    Once outer hair cells are damaged, they do not regenerate, and the result is a loss of sensitivity and an abnormally large growth of loudness (known as recruitment) in the part of the spectrum that the damaged cells serve. [13] While hearing loss has always been considered irreversible in mammals, fish and birds routinely repair such damage. A ...

  6. Inner ear - Wikipedia

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    The hair cells are the primary auditory receptor cells and they are also known as auditory sensory cells, acoustic hair cells, auditory cells or cells of Corti. The organ of Corti is lined with a single row of inner hair cells and three rows of outer hair cells. The hair cells have a hair bundle at the apical surface of the cell.

  7. Hensen's cell - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Furthermore, Hensen's cells are also able to regenerate the damaged hair cells in some vertebrates; they undergo phagocytosis to eject the dead or injured hair cells, and reproduce both new hair cells and supporting cells into the cell cycle. One of the reasons is that the supporting cells are differentiated by the embryonic hair cells ...

  8. Cochlea - Wikipedia

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    Three rows consist of outer hair cells (OHCs) and one row consists of inner hair cells (IHCs). The inner hair cells provide the main neural output of the cochlea. The outer hair cells, instead, mainly 'receive' neural input from the brain, which influences their motility as part of the cochlea's mechanical "pre-amplifier".

  9. Auditory system - Wikipedia

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    There are two types of hair cells specific to the auditory system; inner and outer hair cells. Inner hair cells are the mechanoreceptors for hearing: they transduce the vibration of sound into electrical activity in nerve fibers, which is transmitted to the brain. Outer hair cells are a motor structure.