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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Comp Neurol. 2014 Jun 10;522(14):3141–3159. doi: 10.1002/cne.23625

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Type II hair cells with processes are also present in the saccule and lateral ampulla of adult mice, gerbils, and bats. All images are horizontal confocal slices of various sensory epithelia from mature rodents, showing myosin VIIa immunolabeling and focused on the layer at or just under the type I hair cell nuclei. Arrowheads point to type II hair cell processes and arrows point to type I hair cell bodies. A. The lateral extrastriolar region of a 6 week-old CBA/CaJ mouse saccular macula. B. The lateral extrastriolar region of a utricle from a young, sexually mature rat (~40 days of age). C. The extrastriolar region of a sexually mature gerbil utricular macula. D. The extrastriolar region of a utricular macula from an adult bat (> 56 days of age). Scale bar in A = 5 μm (applies to A–D).