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Published in final edited form as: Nat Commun. 2014 May 20;5:3840. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4840

Table 2.

Quantified HC phenotypes.

	Control		RA		Citral
	Proximal	Distal	Proximal	Distal	Proximal	Distal
Stereocilia number (mean±s.e.m.)	79.3 ±5.6	48.6 ±3.2	54.4 ±3.1	26.0 ±1.8	104.6 ± 10.1	56.9 ±3.2
	n_BPs = 8	n_BPs = 8	n_BPs = 6	n_BPs = 6	n_BPs = 8	n_BPs = 8
	n_HCS = 96	n_HCS = 65	n_HCS = 54	n_HCS = 53	n_HCS = 68	n_HCS = 76
Hair bundle height (µm)	2.14 ±0.23	3.03 ±0.13	3.48 ±0.17	2.79 ±0.23	1.42 ±0.12	1.80 ±0.21
	n_BPs = 8	n_BPs = 8	n_BPs = 9	n_BPs = 9	n_BPs = 6	n_BPs = 6
	n_HCS = 169	n_HCS = 282	n_HCS = 218	n_HCS = 181	n_HCS = 156	n_HCS = 114
Luminal surface area (µm²)	28.4 ±2.44	11.17 ±0.85	14.82 ±1.48	9.15 ±0.72	33.07 ±3.37	13.74 ±0.94
	n_BPs = 15	n_BPs = 15	n_BPs = 20	n_BPs = 20	n_BPs = 12	n_BPs = 12
	n_HCS = 242	n_HCS = 228	n_HCS = 359	n_HCS = 322	n_HCS = 189	n_HCS = 197

Quantitative analyses of the hair cell phenotypes that formed in proximal and distal regions of E6.5 BPs treated with control media or media supplemented with RA or citral. Values shown are mean±s.e.m.