Talk:Hair cell

message: https://www.audiologyonline.com/releases/ears-may-hold-answers-to-4038
A loss of these sensitive hair cells can trigger death.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.124.246.188 (talk) 18:34, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The hair cells of the inner ear are also carbon dioxide sensitive chemoreceptors which send information about carbon dioxide levels to the brain to drive breathing. 

message: Looks like this article is describing inner hair cells in particular (i.e., not hair cells in general). It's my understanding that inner hair cells convert sound waves into neural signals, and that outer hair cells do some fine-tuning based on feedback received from the CNS. It's not my field (but what is, really?) so I hesitate to make any additions without doing some research. --Diberri | Talk 20:42, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)
:Sigh, yes pretty much every wikipedia article on the auditory system needs work.  But at least we have a pretty thorough start on inner hair cells.  I was going to work on this tonight, but I got side-tracked by sound localization, so I'll try to get to this next.  --Chinasaur 09:11, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyway the English wiki has an article about these powerful sensory cells used in all kinds of vertebrates for various purposes (Lateral line system etc.) I agree it is all about some specific hair cells in the inner ear. Maybe somebody can fix that and make the general principle of the hair cell understandable. Pity most references are not specified in the text itself, by way of a note, but it seems the article is well founded and doesn't deserve the label. I am side tracked here myself missing an article about the hair cell in Dutch wikipedia to refer to making a table about senses in general.Viridiflavus (talk) 13:20, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topic 

message: Since the article title is potentially confusing, how about adding a disambiguation link to Hair follicle at the top? Something like:
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Also, as I understand the article, hair cells don't actually protrude hair, but hair-like structures - is this distinction worth stating? WhiteCat 02:37, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation link? 

message: In the section "Outer hair cells – acoustical pre-amplifiers" it seems someone has edited the article and replaced some words by the sentence 'o i love asian women'
I'm new to editing on wikipedia, and I couldn't find in the history of the document what the correct words should 've been.
I hope someone can fix this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.200.95.53 (talk) 17:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page edited by some joker? 

message: Please add the approximate number of each type of cell.  I read once that in humans it's 15 to 20 thousand.  Badagnani 06:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: About 20,000 outer, 3500 inner in each cochlea. See Schauf CL, Moffett DF, Moffett SB. Human physiology: foundations & frontiers (1990) p.229 http://books.google.ca/books?id=RLpqAAAAMAAJ LeadSongDog come howl 18:26, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number 

message: One of the images is of a semicircular canal which isn't even discussed in this article. Also, this article is terrible. So poorly written, so much missing, and certain details like pesticides being concentrated in whales are emphasized while the protein responsible for electromotility, prestin, isn't even explained.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.249.107.38  (talk • contribs) 11:19, 6 January 2010
:So fix it! Bring new sources or use the existing ones to support better explanations and fill in missing concepts. That's how Wikipedia grows. :-) LeadSongDog come howl 16:34, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: i am by no means an expert on the auditor system, but is the part
"Within the hair shaft is the medulla, cortex and secondary cuticle. Medulla is not completely dead cells, cortical substance - it's dead skin cells, which are pigments responsible for light hair (eumelanin or phaeomelanin). Zumelanin responsible for black-and-brown color, and pheomelanin in the yellow-red. In different proportions of these pigments give hair a certain color: brown, black, blond, red, gray and ashy, and their different shades."
in the section "Inner hair cells – from sound to nerve signal" 
just plain wrong?
can someone who actually has the knowledge fix that?
--Denkmeister (talk) 01:29, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inner hair cells – from sound to nerve signal mistake? 

message: There are 3 rows of outer hair cells (OHC's) that have supporting cells or Deiter Cells. Should this be included? Chandramaas (talk) 19:51, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outer Hair Cells 

message: I cut this recent addition, as I could find nothing independent to support it, and it is barely notable even if there were:
The cited source is by no means a wp:RS. LeadSongDog come howl! 16:06, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text removed 

message: (1) the photos, captions, and commons-notes don't say the size of these cells nor the amount of magnification; (2) title of article maybe should be inner-ear hair cell, since most hairs are elsewhere; (3) new research by the company mentioned above and Stefan Heller can bring life to the relevance of regrowth; (4) can we clarify how often deafness is related to a hair-cell-growth vs something else?  Ruminating . . . -- econterms (talk) 19:14, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible improvements