Furness, David (2021). CIL:38908, Cavia porcellus, cochlear inner hair cell. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J04Q7SV9

Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of the inside of a guinea pig inner ear showing the hearing organ, or cochlea. Running along the spiral structure are rows of sensory cells which respond to different frequencies of sound. The whole organ is just a few millimeters long.

• 2021

• Furness, David

B0003553 Scanning electron micrograph Collection: Wellcome Images Library reference no.: Contributor Reference B0000110B. Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.0 UK: England & Wales, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/

Preparation: chemically fixed tissue
Relation to intact cell: whole mounted tissue
Item type: recorded image
Imaging mode: scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Parameter imaged: elastic scattering of electrons
Source of contrast: differences in deposition of metal shadow
Visualization methods: visualization of contiguous regions
Processing history: colorized

• Cavia porcellus

• Cochlear inner hair cell
• Stereocilium

• Detection of mechanical stimulus involved in sensory perception of sound

• data
• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Samplenumber: 38908

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J04Q7SV9

Source data

• Source Record in the Cell Image Library: https://doi.org/10.7295/W9CIL38908

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• Wellcome Images: http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/

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2022-08-12